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Sat May-10-08 04:53 PM
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16. "all of humanity branched off from his family tree trunk" |
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Weird, considering that our oldest shared ancestors lived in Africa, not Asia, per mDNA research. It was just in the news: we're all descended from about 2000 survivors, scattered around Africa, of a drought that ended 70K years ago. Perhaps what they meant is that the only people living a sufficiently isolated, inbred life to have conserved that archaic DNA pattern (and it would have to have been so isolated and inbred that it's a wonder they can reproduce at all) now live in central Asia.
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