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My parental haplogroup
Here's some information from 23andMe about my parental haplogroup:
Your paternal line descends from haplogroup J-M267, one of two major branches of haplogroup J. J-M267 split away from its brother lineage in the Middle East between 31,000 and 36,000 years ago, but the most dramatic chapter in its history has been in the last 10,000. As the climate warmed dramatically, people living in the Fertile Crescent learned to domesticate the first cereals and livestock. These new ways of life were spectacularly successful, and populations began to boom.
Men bearing haplogroup J-M267 were there at the heart of this transformation, and their descendants are common from the Mediterranean to the Indus River basin today, especially in the Levant and eastern Anatolia. But not everyone stayed put. Some men drove their herds south into the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. Thousands of years later, their descendants make up 35% to over 70% of all men in regions across the south of the peninsula. Others moved west into Northern Africa, through Egypt and across the top of the Sahara to Morocco. Nearly 20% of men in Egypt carry J-M267, as do 30% of men in Tunisia, 35% in Algeria, and 5% in Morocco. The lineage is more rare in Europe, but can be found at low percentages in regions along the southern edge, including in Iberia, Italy, Greece, and the Mediterranean islands.
Here's some information from 23andMe about my parental haplogroup:
Your paternal line descends from haplogroup J-M267, one of two major branches of haplogroup J. J-M267 split away from its brother lineage in the Middle East between 31,000 and 36,000 years ago, but the most dramatic chapter in its history has been in the last 10,000. As the climate warmed dramatically, people living in the Fertile Crescent learned to domesticate the first cereals and livestock. These new ways of life were spectacularly successful, and populations began to boom.
Men bearing haplogroup J-M267 were there at the heart of this transformation, and their descendants are common from the Mediterranean to the Indus River basin today, especially in the Levant and eastern Anatolia. But not everyone stayed put. Some men drove their herds south into the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. Thousands of years later, their descendants make up 35% to over 70% of all men in regions across the south of the peninsula. Others moved west into Northern Africa, through Egypt and across the top of the Sahara to Morocco. Nearly 20% of men in Egypt carry J-M267, as do 30% of men in Tunisia, 35% in Algeria, and 5% in Morocco. The lineage is more rare in Europe, but can be found at low percentages in regions along the southern edge, including in Iberia, Italy, Greece, and the Mediterranean islands.
