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To: Ken H
Am I mistaken, or have geneticists ruled out that humanity can be traced back to three couples?--

Certainly on a biblical timescale human genetic diversity is far too great to be traced back to 3 couples c 4200 years ago. The problem with the rest of the biological world is even greater, of course.

382 posted on 12/27/2005 11:30:16 AM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive blackguard than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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To: Thatcherite

He may be talking about the last common ancestor (LUCA)which at last calculation was ~3500 years ago. IMS


389 posted on 12/27/2005 1:25:39 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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