[Mamzelle]

re:Your response was that the 'Y' chromosome is too changeable for that to be accepted and that we should use mitochondrial DNA, which by the language used in your posts leads me to believe you feel the female MRCA, which biologists have called 'eve' (a poor choice in my opinion) is indeed the eve of the Bible.))

That was not my response. I didn't get that far. Not that the Y was unacceptable. I was pointing out that the more interesting ancestral argument might be about Noah's wife, to which I was told I could not tell male from female. Or something like that.

[b_sharp]

"I was pointing out that the more interesting ancestral argument might be about Noah's wife, to which I was told I could not tell male from female. Or something like that.

Perhaps it was the way you suggested the use of the 'X' chromosome?

It may very well be an interesting question, but the female most recent common ancestor is a number of years farther in the past than that postulated by the Biblical literalists.

I did not see where it was stated you can't tell the difference between a male and a female, but given that it happened, I was not one who did.