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Posted By : Jordan Lapp - 4/25/2008 6:03 PM
Just so no one thinks I'm biased: Here's evidence that nearly all modern humans are descended from a single woman who lived about 200,000 years ago. A so-called mitochondrial Eve.
 
Of course, to believe this, you also need to believe that the earth is more than 6,000 years ago. Science giveth and science taketh away. devil


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Posted By : RHFay - 4/25/2008 7:39 PM
Yeah, I've read about this before. And it sort of makes sense if you believe that modern humans arose from one group of Africans (the "Out of Africa" theory).

There may have indeed been an Eve, just not in the strict literal sense. Still, it suggests that the story has at least a kernel of truth. And that really intrigues me.


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