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Thousands of years ago, somewhere in Africa, lived a man who – probably – had no idea that he, among all the other men in his group, would go on to become humankind’s most recent common male ancestor. Scientists would call him “Adam.”

So multiple men evolved from apes at the same time? Which came first the chicken or the egg has finally been solved. Multiple eggs just appeared from multiple lizards and they all grew chickens what laid the same kind of eggs.

Now, a new paper published in the journal Science significantly narrows the time during which Adam could have lived – about 120,000 to 156,000 years ago – putting him in about the same time period as humankind’s most recent common female ancestor, often dubbed “Eve." The research revises previous findings that dated Adam within a much longer period.

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Personally, I would be much more interested and intrigued in the detailed, rational and supported persuasive thesis and argument that the original Adam and the original Eve did NOT exist at the same time and place.

I got lots of popcorn...

Genetic Adam and Eve Could Have Been Contemporaries

Isn't that sort of assumed, if they started the human race?

“Dubbed” Adam and Eve. I didn’t know God went around “dubbing” people.

Job 38

4 Were you there when I made the world? If you know so much, tell me about it. 5 Who decided how large it would be? Who stretched the measuring line over it? Do you know all the answers?

Thousands of years ago, somewhere in Africa, lived a man who – probably – had no idea that he, among all the other men in his group, would go on to become humankind’s most recent common male ancestor. Scientists would call him “Adam.”

Wait.... what?

Haven't we been told enough that mankind could not have come from a single ancestor because there wasn't enough genetic diversity?

At least Adam didn’t have to listen to a bunch of nosey relatives asking him “is that the best you could do?”

Genetic Adam and Eve Could Have Been Contemporaries, Scientists Say

So. In five years, scientists will say something totally different.