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Thanks for posting this. It has always baffled me that we are led to believe that all of humanity springs from one common root. Absolutely ridiculous and goes a

by wpankey 11y ago

Thanks for posting this. It has always baffled me that we are led to believe that all of humanity springs from one common root. Absolutely ridiculous and goes against common sense -what other species (of anything) has just one single representative??? Who's been selling this and why???

lordnacho 11y ago
Nobody is saying there was a single pair of people at some point. But something like a population bottleneck resulting from the Toba eruption would mean all future people were descended from a small group of survivors. And those types of events happen a lot.
- RogtamBar 11y ago
  Small group? It went down to estimated 1500 worldwide. That is plenty. Note that last common ancestor of the most differing human ethnics is something like 180-200k years ago. Furthermore, with the advent of denser living and agriculture, evolution sped up quite a lot.
throwaway1967 11y ago
> Who's been selling this and why??? The New York Intellectuals, who were connected to the Frankfurt School, who got the baton from Psychoanalysis. Read The Culture Of Critique by Kevin Macdonald and you will have precisely your answer.
rriepe 11y ago
Ideas like Mitochondrial Eve are really popular, and also really popularly misinterpreted.