Excerpts taken from the Oxford Annotated Bible:

Genesis "Then God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind… Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness." (1.26) "God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it."(1.28) "God said 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it or you shall die.' (3.3) "The man said (to God) "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate." (3.12) "Then the Lord God said, 'See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever." (3.22) "Therefore, the Lord God sent (man) forth from the garden of Eden…" (3,23)

Excerpts taken from: THE JOURNEY OF MAN: A GENETIC ODYSSEY (2002) Spencer Wells The author was the head of the Population Genetics Research Group at Oxford University.

"A worldwide sample of men, from dozens of populations on every continent, were studied using the newly discovered treasure trove of Y (chromosome) polymorphisms. Applying the same methods used in the earlier mtDNA studies, a tree diagram was constructed from the pattern of sequence variation. What this diagram showed was that the oldest splits in the ancestry of the Y-chromosome occurred in Africa. In other words, the root of the male family tree (of mankind) was placed in Africa" (p53-54). "In an evolutionary eye-blink, a mere blip in the history of life on our planet, humans have left Africa and colonized the world" (p55).