Posted on 05/01/2009 10:19:20 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
The Garden of Eden may not have looked much like its traditional image of a lush, fertile corner of the Earth.
Instead, a genetic study of Africa suggests that the origin of humanity lies in a sandy, inhospitable region near the coastal border of Namibia and Angola.
The area is populated by the Bushmen, or San people, who may be the closest thing to a biblical Adam and Eve. The study even gives the co-ordinates as 12.5° E and 17.5° S.
Scientists suggest that the clicking sounds characteristic of the San’s language may be a remnant of original human speech.
The conclusion emerges from the largest study of African genetics yet, conducted by an international team led by Sarah Tishkoff, of the University of Pennsylvania.
Researchers studied genes from more than 3,000 people in 121 of 2,000 population groups in Africa. The study demonstrated that there was more genetic diversity in Africa than anywhere else on Earth, and found that modern African populations evolved from 14 ancestral ones.
Dr Tishkoff said that the study had traced the origin of mankind on the assumption that the oldest population would have the greatest genetic diversity. That diversity decreases as populations migrate away from the origin. “The source area for migration within Africa was in that area that represents today the San homeland,” she said. “What it’s really reflecting is the high level of diversity we are seeing in the San populations. It’s consistent with other studies that those populations have the most ancient lineages.”
She left open the possibility that the San may have themselves migrated at some point from a Garden of Eden somewhere else. “It’s very possible that those populations may have migrated from another region, such as eastern Africa. If that’s the case, 50,000 years
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Obama is a Bushman?
Excellent work with DNA continues. This isn’t the least bit surprising.
yitbos
A more prosaic explanation is that speech which has to carry over long distances (e.g. across a savanna) will be clickier than language which is chiefly shared face to face. The "mother tongue" may be forever lost.
yitbos
More politically correct mumbo jumbo to discredit the Bible.
Does the Bible specify what Adam and Eve’s color of skin was?
See, if you choose your assumption carefully, you can always reach your preferred conclusion. Even if your assumption is false.
Careful, you don’t want to pi$$ off the bible thumpers on here. They know it all.
Yep, where did all them pesky, malignant, killer white people come from?
No, and that’s not the point.
The point is in speaking of Eden, and of Adam and Eve, as though everybody is expected to view them as jokes.
In other words, we sampled 8% of population groups, started with a flimsy premise and leapt to a conclusion. And we spent tons of grant (taxpayer) money.
Ain’t education wonderful?
>>Careful, you don’t want to pi$$ off the bible thumpers on here. They know it all.<<
As opposed to you, who know what?
bookmark
As usual though, if they do enough digging, they will find the Bible accurate. I love my archeology Bible. It tells the truth about things saying “evidence suggests, or scholars believe”... Not like the people who brought you abortion and racism, the Darwinists.
Not me. I view them as mythical.
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