World’s Oldest Pedigree Revealed

Millions of years of human history continue to be recorded, with the world population exceeding 7.78 billion. It is known that each of us intersects at some point in our lineage, even if it is hundreds, maybe thousands of years. In a recent study, the emergence of the world’s oldest pedigree provided.

In a 6,000-year-old tomb discovered in England the remains of a total of 27 family members found. As a result of DNA tests, it was understood that these 27 family members came from the union of a single woman and man. The discovery also showed that polygamous marriages existed in the upper echelons of Neolithic society at that time.

The world’s oldest pedigree, dating back 5 generations:

Population geneticist Inigo Olalde, from the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, said the study led to the emergence of the first large family tree known in prehistory, and that it is one of the largest family trees expressed. Researchers from Harvard University, Newcastle University and the University of Vienna also participated in the study.

Inigo Olalde explained that the new methods will quickly be applied to other collections of human DNA. The bones discovered in the study were actually With the excavations carried out in 1980 was brought to earth. Relationships were identified in 27 of the 35 remains unearthed in this excavation. It has also been discovered that men are often buried next to their fathers and siblings.

The finding pointing to polygamous marriages was that it was revealed that the man could not have been married to 4 women in succession. This man probably had multiple wives at the same time. In addition, in the societies of first-generation women whose remains were found, are socially important revealed.