# Testing Jeanson's Model: Y Chromosome Mutation Rates

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**Created:** [July 16, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/testing-jeansons-model-y-chromosome-mutation-rates/11147 "2020-07-16T17:34:37Z")\
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> [@Faizal\_Ali](#):
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> He says creationists and evolutionists agree on the human population trends over the past 3000 years.
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> And the evidence from the Y chromosome is consistent with those trends.
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> Therefore, humans have existed for only about 6000 years, and not hundreds of thousands of years.
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> He lost me at the last point. Did you understand what he was saying?

Yes, he’s saying historians agree on population growth throughout known history. That population growth creates a specific curve.

Then he’s saying he used his y-chromosome mutation rate to create a family tree, and then takes all of the males from the family tree to estimate population growth throughout history.

His curve matches the historians’ curve.

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