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Article #528Re: Univerrsal Common Female Ancestor
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1987 03:29
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1987 03:29
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In article <1248@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: <In article <894@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> elturner@phoenix.Princeton.EDU <(Edwin L Turner) writes: < < All living people (or at least ~99% of them) have a single common < female ancestor on their purely maternal line.... < <I wonder why Creationists haven't picked up on this. Easy, the same evidence also shows that this common ancestor was too far back to fit in with the Bible. And this (and similar) evidence also shows "recent" common ancestors with gorillas (and very slightly les recent with chiimps). As I recall, human DNA is similar enough to gorilla that a hybrid would quite likely be viable! Of course, no one is going to try it. It is a real can of worms ethically.... -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'. You know... I'd rather be a hacker."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio,soc.women Subject: Re: Univerrsal Common Female Ancestor Message-ID: <548@bucket.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 23:29:06 EDT Article-I.D.: bucket.548 Posted: Mon Oct 12 23:29:06 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 06:46:32 EDT References: <894@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1248@bsu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR Lines: 22 Keywords: Eve?