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  • #32
    Festus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Festus


    Morbert wrote: »
    Good, so we agree that Genesis is not to be taken literally in the sense that animals and other natural phenomena did not literally occur in the order tendered by Genesis, and that Christians can consistently believe in evolution, common descent from a single ancestor.

    meh, no we don't agree.


  • #33
    santing
    Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭santing


    Festus wrote: »
    meh, no we don't agree.
    For a change, I do agree with you.


  • #34
    darjeeling
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭darjeeling


    darjeeling wrote: »
    Great topic! This is an amazing figure generated from that DNA research showing how all humans living today descend from the original 'Mitochondrial [sic] Eve'.

    new-species-tree.jpg?w=448

    All Eve's descendents are shaded in grey; the blue ones are Neanderthals, and the red Siberian one - who knows!

    .

    Well the mystery red Denisovan is now a bit better understood. From sequencing a lot more of the genome, we can see that these newly discovered human relatives were actually closer kin to the Neanderthals than to us, and lived mainly in Asia. They weren't matrilineal descendents of human mtDNA Eve or patrilineal descendents of human Y-chromosome Adam. They did, though, have children with the modern human ancestors of present-day Melanesians, so their genes live on in humans today.

    Links:
    Guardian story
    pay-per-view Nature paper here,
    boards threads on early paper here and new paper here


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