Study: 'Eve' Came From East Africa

Discover News ^ | 4-24-2003 | Jennifer Viegas

[blam]

I'll post some pictures right away.

[gov_bean_ counter]

North, South, East or West. She was still seduced by a snake.

I worked with someone who often said after a argument with his wife, "Adam should have barbequed that rib".

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

My Bio teacher had us watch a film on this that was a tape from about a year ago. I believe that Time mag also did an article about this at the same time.

[blam]

Oops, can't get the pictures to transfer. Click on the site to see them.

[JusPasenThru]

Hmm. Seems like Eve would have skipped the apple and eaten the snake instead. I hear they taste just like chicken.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Nice shot.

[Dog Gone]

I'm not sure that these studies indicate a geographic location at all. The fact that current residents of the area are the likely "ancestors" is not evidence that they always were there.

This may be a case of researchers being influenced by other findings in the Oldavai Gorge. Having said that, this area seems more likely than anywhere else being suggested at the momemnt.

[ALS]

"All genomes today are descended from one person, but she lived in a larger population. By chance, her neighbor's mtDNA genomes 'died out' and never made it into the modern gene pool."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[DallasMike]

So we're all African-Americans.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Are these the pictures??

These women are from the Datog tribe of Tanzania. The Datog, who are thought to have originated in Sudan, is a population that "Eve" possibly belonged to.

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A member of the Maasai tribe in Tanzania gets a checkup from a visiting scientist, much to the amusement of other tribe members.





Picture(s): Courtesy of Sarah Tishkoff

[Dog Gone]

If they hadn't died out, the researchers would have had to go back to an earlier ancestor. You're laughing at something that is a genetic certainty. It can't be any other way.

[ALS]

[Textide]

Uh...Yeah, it's like looking in a mirror.

[Bernard Marx]

Having said that, this area seems more likely than anywhere else being suggested at the momemnt.

Maybe, but I'd like to see similar studies done in the Indus Valley, Indonesia, Australia (Aboriginals of course), South Africa, China and a few other spots. The "Out of Africa" premise may be true but I've always wondered why no one has tested an "Into Africa" thesis. Maybe they have and I'm just not aware of it.

[ThreePuttinDude]

"So we're all African-Americans."

In that case, I'm changing my mind, "I want Reparations"

[ALS]

[blam]

"I'm not sure that these studies indicate a geographic location at all. The fact that current residents of the area are the likely "ancestors" is not evidence that they always were there."

I agree 100%. For example, it's hard to view the middle east as once being populated by proto-Celtics, huh?

[Jorge]

Whoever did the drawings of original man on the evolution web sites will see this as proof of their accuracy.

[old school]

So, what is the point here? I don't get it! I'm sure that this is of great consequence to someone. But, at this point what does it really matter?

[ALS]

dream on genius. The entire concept is laughable. just one look at the hypotheticals they inserted just to coagulate an article is reason enough to giggle.
but of course I'm sure you'll try to turn it into a "science vs. the bible" argument, which is even funnier given that the article conjures up eve to add to the sensationalism.