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Age of Our Ancestors-How Our Genetic Adam Is Much Younger than Genetic Eve
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Posted on 02/02/2004 12:31:53 AM PST by chance33_98
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posted on
02/02/2004 12:32:23 AM PST
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chance33_98
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posted on
02/02/2004 12:36:03 AM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: chance33_98
Just because "Adam" died in Africa does not mean he lived there! Just because you find ones bones in a place does not mean he lived there! "Adam" could have wondered from place to place! "Adam" could be a person of special importance and his bones could have been taken to Africa as a sign of reverance! The Catholic Church has lots of bones of "saints" who were stolen and moved to places for worship!
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posted on
02/02/2004 12:47:12 AM PST
by
KingNo155
To: KingNo155
seems like this is a pc article to game "eve" as first.
If anything it tells me that the survival characteristics of the Y carrying humans had more selection activity than the X. Thus given hunting and warfare etc., the weaker Y's were killed off by environment and stronger Y's. The X's were not under such survival strain and thus did not have to be as genetically selective for survivale traits.
The X is "older" because it has had to change less. (keep in mind all men are X and Y not just Y. women=XX men=XY Just in case anyone missed that part from the article) The Y is newer because the Y model one was killed off in favor of Y model two.
(s)so in essence this ABC story is saying that women are less evolved than men. (/s)
To: longtermmemmory
Well of course women are less evolved than men...... that's why we don't have that urge to hog the TV remote....LOL
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posted on
02/02/2004 3:24:42 AM PST
by
Apple Pan Dowdy
(... as American as Apple Pie)
To: KingNo155
You seriously expect a primitive creature that walks very slowly and is defenseless to move vast distances in a lifetime 60,000 years ago before the discovery of the wheel, before domestication of any animals? He could only have lived in Afrique
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posted on
02/02/2004 3:40:59 AM PST
by
Cronos
(W2004!)
To: KingNo155
Words fail me
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posted on
02/02/2004 4:02:50 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(It is always tempting to impute unlikely virtues to the cute)
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posted on
02/02/2004 4:32:05 AM PST
by
Junior
(Some people follow their dreams. Others hunt theirs down and beat them mercilessly into submission)
To: KingNo155
Catholics have never worshipped bones. Just an FYI.
To: chance33_98
It might be true... Of course, who knows? These days scientists spend a lot of effort trying to disprove the account of Genesis. Maybe the whole thing is a big fraud.
To: KingNo155
"Adam" could be a person of special importance and his bones could have been taken to Africa as a sign of reverance! Sure, but there's no way to determine whether that is true or not. Most likely, not. People of the time were hunter-gatherers who travelled with nothing but what they could carry.
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posted on
02/02/2004 6:23:19 AM PST
by
Modernman
("The details of my life are quite inconsequential...." - Dr. Evil)
To: Brilliant
These days scientists spend a lot of effort trying to disprove the account of Genesis. Yup. Scientists spend their time trying to disprove the tenets of Christianity. I'd love to see an example.
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posted on
02/02/2004 6:24:59 AM PST
by
Modernman
("The details of my life are quite inconsequential...." - Dr. Evil)
To: farmfriend
Please add me to your Gods Glyphs ping list.........thanks
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posted on
02/02/2004 6:33:37 AM PST
by
jeremiah
(Sunshine scares all of them, for they all are cockaroaches)
To: KingNo155
So what if it's Africa?
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posted on
02/02/2004 6:48:57 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: TheGeezer
Catholics have never worshipped bones. Just an FYI.What's reverentially placed in the alter of every Catholic church?
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posted on
02/02/2004 6:53:14 AM PST
by
SengirV
To: chance33_98
" Eve, whose existence was long disputed by those who believed that mankind developed independently in several locations around the world. I still believe this.
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posted on
02/02/2004 8:10:35 AM PST
by
blam
To: KingNo155
It's not about bones. They study the DNA of living people in order to determine how they are related. People still living in Africa today have DNA that is far more similar to that of the people they are calling "Eve" and "Adam" than yours is or mine is - unless you're African. A group of people living today in the north-western Kalahari desert in southern Africa is the population that is closest to the root of the human DNA tree.
To: SengirV
Mary.
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posted on
02/02/2004 9:15:11 AM PST
by
StoneColdGOP
(McClintock - In Your Heart, You Know He's Right)
To: longtermmemmory
Everybody alive today has inherited their mitochondrial DNA from the same woman who lived 120 million years ago. And everybody alive today has inherited their cellular DNA from the same man who lived 60 million years ago. That's what the article is saying.
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