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This researches are in fact very "biblical". First of all it seems that homo sapiens had one ancestor, as Bible says. Scientists would say that mutation leadin
by piokoch 14y ago
This researches are in fact very "biblical".
First of all it seems that homo sapiens had one ancestor, as Bible says. Scientists would say that mutation leading to rise of homo sapiens was just a random mutation, the "bible thumpers" are also happy, since they might say, that this mutation was not random, but God induced.
All these recent genetic findings are easily digested by avarage "bible thumper", there is no fundamental disagreement. One can still belive in God and use genetics without getting crazy :).
- archangel_one 14y ago> it seems that homo sapiens had one ancestor, as Bible says Not really; we're apparently all descended from this chap, but he's not the only living male human at the time. He himself had a father, just like we all do. And while there is a female equivalent in "mitochondrial Eve", they didn't live at the same time. So it doesn't really bear much resemblance to the book of Genesis.
- ithkuil 14y agoExactly, he might had been lucky and survive some plague, or killed every body else in a small group that was lucky to survive a plague. Or he simply might have had a large harem and so a his descendance was more numerous that other people and thus more likely to survive a subsequent struggle or plague. It's also possible that this event was repeated often enough and all that our statistical methods of DNA matching can see is a single father, but it could perhaps have been a whole dynasty and/or brothers sharing mating privileges.