> From: Ticia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <delurking> > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/brotherhood_of_man > > "Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in > East Asia Taiwan, Malaysia and Siberia all are likely locations. He > or she did nothing more remarkable than be born, live, have children > and die. > > Yet this was the ancestor of every person now living on Earth the last > person in history whose family tree branches out to touch all 6.5 > billion people on the planet today. > > That means everybody on Earth descends from somebody who was around as > recently as the reign of Tutankhamen, maybe even during the Golden Age > of ancient Greece. There's even a chance that our last shared ancestor > lived at the time of Christ. > > "It's a mathematical certainty that that person existed," said Steve > Olson, whose 2002 book "Mapping Human History" traces the history of the > species since its origins in Africa more than 100,000 years ago." > [...] >
Didn't native americans cross the land bridge circa 14,000 years ago, and remained relatively unconnected to other human populations until circa 1492? There are other similarly isolated populations I could point out. I'm not buying it. There was no common ancestor as of 2000 ya or even 3000 ya. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
