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Subscribe to the RTVI Telegram channel: https://t.me/rtvimain What do the terms "mitochondrial Eve" and "Y-chromosomal Adam" mean? How does gene recombination work? Why are mitochondria inherited only through the female line, and the ear hair gene only through the male line? Was Eve the only woman in her time, and Adam the only man? And what data do scientists use to find our ancestors? In the new episode of "Drobyshevsky. Homo sapiens" Stanislav Drobyshevsky talks about how archaeogenetics works. Subscribe to @RTVItainment and like RTVI News - all the main events in a 24/7 format: / myrtvi 00:00 "Drobyshevsky. Homo sapiens." Archaeogenetics 00:39 About mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam 05:52 How does gene recombination work? 11:14 Was Eve the only woman in her time? 13:11 What data do scientists use to find our ancestors? 15:04 "Y is an unfinished chromosome" 16:33 How is a child's sex formed at conception? 19:09 "Adam and Eve did not live synchronously, but at different times" 21:00 Are there "Adam" and "Eve" in the animal world? 23:12 Recommendations for those planning to do a genetic analysis We thank the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 2 for their help in filming this episode