[AZLiberty]

Seems unlikely to me, especially with migrations that occurred over 10,000 years ago. The author has argued that no one living today is a pure descendant of one those migrations.

[Mamzelle]

re: Rohde's team also calculates that in 5,400 BC everyone alive was either an ancestor of all of humanity, or of nobody alive today.)))

Kerry's speechwriter?

[Crazieman]

My ex girlfriend was my cousin? Freaky!

;)

[fnord]

Human populations are tightly interwoven

Occasionally yes, or else no human population ...

[SunkenCiv]

These computer simulations are even less reputable than mtDNA "studies". It's amazing how thin an ancestry can become. My best friend has no first cousins. He's an only child. His mother was an only child. Her father was orphaned at a young age, losing his parents and only sibling (sister) to an accident, so she had no first cousins.

For that matter... my family has lived on the same farm since 1851, and was in town (although calling it a town at that point was dubious) for about seven years before that. While doing some rudimentary genealogical research, I found another family has lived in the same town for most of that time, and prior to that, in similar proximity to my family, going back hundreds of years in America -- without ever intermarrying (apparently -- I wasn't meticulous).

GIGO. :')

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[Drammach]

Seems to me that this computer model's conclusions would be hard to prove..

First, it's a "simulation"..
Second, it's a "probability model"..

If we were talking Global Warming, we would dismiss it out of hand..

[John O]

Besides dating our most recent common ancestor, Rohde's team also calculates that in 5,400 BC everyone alive was either an ancestor of all of humanity, or of nobody alive today.

I realize that this study is hoakum but this date falls amazingly close to the date of Adam according to some biblical timelines.

[msdrby]

Noah ping

[BossLady]

"No matter the languages we speak or the colour of our skin, we share ancestors"

Uh oh....don't let the Arabs know when they shake hands with a Jew ....it could be their cousin! :o

[SunkenCiv]

bttt, and a related topic:

Maori Men And Women From Different Homelands
ABC Science News ^ | 3-27-2003 | Adele Whyte
Posted on 09/06/2004 5:15:41 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1208808/posts

[SunkenCiv]

February 2005 bump

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