[thechat] Journey of Man

[John Handelaar]

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 01:32, Erika Meyer wrote:
>
> He is able to determine what DNA patterns are the oldest and by doing
> so he is  able to find a bushman tribe in Africa he thinks are the
> most direct descendants of the first man.

First *woman*.  Assuming this is the thing about tracking
mytochondrial DNA (I have NFI about this but used to go out
with a woman with a PhD in Anthropology), the logic was
that there could indeed be an 'Eve'. For reasons I forget,
'Adam' didn't exist.

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