Posted on 10/10/2004 8:21:08 PM PDT by neverdem
Then how would that make "10 Adams and 18 Eves"? Did Adam and Eve clone themselves? Shouldn't the title be "10 Sons and 18 Daughters?"
Well he lived to 900 he had to be doing something for all those centuries.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
Election 2004 threads on FR
This conclusively proves that the Garden of Eden was near Surf City.
A new mystery evolves on trail of early humansNew studies of the Y chromosome, the bundle of DNA that distinguishes men from women, suggest that current branches of the human family tree derive from a male ancestor who may have lived only 50,000 years ago, scientists reported last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Previous studies, based on a type of DNA passed on only by women, indicate that the most recent common female ancestor, or "Eve," lived at least 150,000 years ago... "Something happened to the record 50,000 to 60,000 years ago," said Peter Oefner, a biologist at the Stanford DNA Sequencing and Technology Center and one of the authors of the study. "We started at ground zero again." ...The new evidence, based on analysis of the DNA of 72 males from 46 populations, is striking, Dr. Oefner said... Dr. Oefner is quick to warn that... [t]he average estimate coming out of the new data is 50,000 years, he said, but that male could have lived anywhere from 40,000 to 140,000 years ago.
by Emily Sohn
06/26/2000
Dallas News
LOL -- oh, STFU. < |:)~
Yes indeed! The Holy Bible rules!
Human populations are tightly interwoven
The most recent common ancestor of all humanity lived just a few thousand years ago, according to a computer model of our family tree. Researchers have calculated that the mystery person, from whom everyone alive today is directly descended, probably lived around 1,500 BC in eastern Asia.
Another article I saw this morning is even more fascinating:
thanks for that other link, I've got that in another window.
Human populations are tightly interwoven
Posted by AZLiberty
On General/Chat ^ 09/30/2004 11:17:34 AM PDT · 27 replies · 206+ views
Nature | September 29, 2004 | Michael Hopkin
The most recent common ancestor of all humanity lived just a few thousand years ago, according to a computer model of our family tree. Researchers have calculated that the mystery person, from whom everyone alive today is directly descended, probably lived around 1,500 BC in eastern Asia. Douglas Rohde of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and his colleagues devised the computer program to simulate the migration and breeding of humans across the world. By estimating how different groups intermingle, the researchers built up a picture of how tightly the world's ancestral lines are linked. The figure of 1,500...
I like those odds!!
But they're all your sisters!
a family reunion is a good place to pick up dates.
When they speak of 1 adam/1 eve they are not speaking of one person but of one genetic signature which represents a close nit population, of limited size.
Have you ever seen the gentic bottle neck and defect results from even a small population of say 10 or 20 individual interbreeding? Eventually infertility sets in and the population dies off. This is true of most higher animals: tigers, humans, apes, etc.
Brings up some interesting questions:
1. 10 guys-18 women. Which of the guys didn't get two wives?
2. Since gay men presumably don't reproduce, how did homosexuality become a genetic trait (at least according to some current theorists)
I don't know, but maybe the X chromosome has a tendency for mutations. ;^)
Thanks for the PING
YUP! (75,000 Years Ago)
"Their is substantial evidence to show that within the time of the super volcano Toba's eruption in the Indonesian Pacific, the world's population of homo sapiens decreased from over one hundred thousand to less than two thousand, basically because global temperatures dropped five degrees for many years. This was within the current interglacial and at its start."
Excellent article. Should be posted as a 'stand-alone' article. Thanks for posting.
So, this means we are all African-Americans?
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