Jun 30 2012 By Janice Burns

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A SCOTS pensioner has been told he is a direct descendant of Eve, the first woman on Earth.

Ian Kinnaird, 72, who took a DNA test to trace his ancestors, was gobsmacked when researchers phoned to tell him he could have descended directly from the Garden of Eden.

They told him he was the grandson of Eve, or grandfather of everyone in Britain.

The results showed Ian has a genetic marker, L1B1, that can be traced all the way to an ancient African lineage.

It has never before been found in Western Europe.

Widower Ian, of Halkirk, Caithness, has mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is passed through the female side, is 30,000 years old and only two genetic mutations removed from the first black Eve.

The retired lecturer said: Ive led an unremarkable life until now. This is a real gobsmacker.

I seem to carry a gene from West Africa that arrived through the slave trade.

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