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Turns out all of humanity is related to a single couple
2018-11-25
[NYPOST] It really is all relative.

A new study revealed that all humans are descendants of the same man and woman who lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

Our communal mom and dad got together after a “catastrophic event” almost wiped out the human race, the Daily Mail reported of the study.

The researchers studied the DNA of five million animals, including humans, to come to their conclusions. They also found that every nine out of 10 animals come from the same original creatures.

The research showed that humans have very low genetic diversity and variants within the species, similar to many other animals.

The report comes out of Rockefeller University and the University of Basel, Switzerland, published in the journal “Human Evolution.”
Posted by:Fred

#6  More of an exercise in mathematics than biology.
Posted by: Whinetle Sneatch8884   2018-11-25 18:50  

#5  Something overlooked from the report. They claim 90% or current animals are also related to similar roots of a single couple.

How many cultures have a Noah's Ark stories? Quite a few. Gives one pause.
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-11-25 17:15  

#4  These studies tend to be misunderstood:

The Mitochondrial Eve wasn't the first or only woman on Earth during the time she lived. She is simply the most recent person to whom all people can trace their genealogy.
Posted by: European Conservative   2018-11-25 15:56  

#3  There have been more recent attempts in this process.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-11-25 07:55  

#2  We do have the math on our side, so there's that.
http://christinprophecy.org/articles/applying-the-science-of-probability-to-the-scriptures/
Posted by: Slains McGurque9610   2018-11-25 07:52  

#1  Adam and Eve is a scientific fact
Posted by: BernardZ   2018-11-25 04:25  

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