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Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam lived not in the same period of time.
by jjjbokma 6y ago
Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam lived not in the same period of time.
- noncoml 6y agoDoes it matter? I mean it’s still close enough for such a prediction so long back. What I am saying is that, like with the “atoms”, the intuition was there. They just didn’t have the means to prove stuff
- hhas01 6y agoPeople predicted lots of things. You can’t look back and say “oh, they predicted X right” while conveniently ignoring all the other ways they predicted it wrong. See also: Post hoc ergo propter hoc and Texas sharpshooter fallacies.
- noncoml 6y agoWhy can't the same argument be hold for Pre-Socratic philosophers and the "atom"?