[KingNo155]

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!

[longtermmemmory]

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)

[Cronos]

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

[Oztrich Boy]

Words fail me

[TheGeezer]

Catholics have never worshipped bones. Just an FYI.

[Modernman]

"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.

[cyborg]

So what if it's Africa?

[CobaltBlue]

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.

[Ichneumon]

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!

This isn't about bones, nor where they are or are not. It's about genetic tracing.

[bayourod]

"The Catholic Church has lots of bones of "saints" who were stolen and moved to places for worship! "

The head of John the Baptist is being held captive in a mosque in Damascus. Good excuse for us to invade Syria.