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Article #71Re: A Common Female Ancestor for Everyone
From: Piet Beertema
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1983 17:28
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1983 17:28
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>All living people (or at least ~99% of them) have a single common female
>ancestor on their purely maternal line. In other words, tracing back to
>one's mother's mother's mother's ... mother will bring everyone back to a
>single individual woman. She is estimated to have lived between 50,000 and
>500,000 years ago.
Fine! But please explain: how comes the oldest fossil hominid skull is
about 2,000,000 years old! Must have been only males then living at that
time....
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Piet Beertema
Center for Math. & Comp. Science (CWI), Amsterdam
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