[CobaltBlue]

The DNA studies don't use bones. Certainly not for Y-chromosome DNA, it doesn't last long enough.

They've got ever larger pools of DNA from living people, and they use models of genetic drift to estimate the time it must have taken for the changes which they can see to have occurred. So if you want to reject the theory, the only thing that can be rejected is the timeline. That is the only guesstimate.

[yhwhsman]

They've got ever larger pools of DNA from living people, and they use models of genetic drift to estimate the time it must have taken for the changes

So, much of this is based on the assumption the model is correct? Is it possible to create a model that points to 'adam' and 'eve' living 200,000, 500,000, or more years ago? Or possibly fewer then 60,000 years ago?

Just curious

[Modernman]

The DNA studies don't use bones. Certainly not for Y-chromosome DNA, it doesn't last long enough.

I was probably being unclear in my post. The poster I was responding to seemed to believe that just because the bones of the so-called "Adam" were found in Africa doesn't mean he was from there. I was trying to point out that the idea of a group of hunter-gatherers travelling hundreds if not thousands of miles while carrying the body of a deceased member of the group was ludicrous.