Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-07 Thread Anthony Hartin
The way to think of this is to go back before the Eve and ask how those lines disappeared. Every time a new human is created, it'll have the mitochondrial DNA of its mother's mother and that of its father's mother isn't passed on. Every role of the dice loses 50%. So, over time, the probability

Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-07 Thread S. Artesian
Shane wrote: And the contradiction is crucial, because the hypothesis of constancy for the rate of change in mitochondrial DNA depends on the assumption of constancy in the environmental conditions determining that rate of change, and such gradualism would guarantee the survival of more than

Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-07 Thread S. Artesian
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Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-07 Thread Mark Lause
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Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

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[Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-06 Thread Mark Lause
In a nutshell: * modern humans separated from Neanderthals around 300-400,000 years ago rather 500-600,000 years. * modern humans migrated out of Africa between 55-60,000 years ago rather than 70-80,000 years. * our African ancestral mother, the mitochondrial Eve lived around 110-130,000 years

Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-06 Thread Greg McDonald
Mark Lause wrote: The second point, revising the out of Africa timing is of particular interest. Could you elaborate on this? Greg McD YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to:

Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-06 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 9/6/2009 6:32:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, saboca...@gmail.com writes: The second point, revising the out of Africa timing is of particular interest. Could you elaborate on this? Greg McD Comment They also got more recent dates for other crucial events such as the

Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-06 Thread Shane Mage
On Sep 6, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Mark Lause wrote: * our African ancestral mother, the mitochondrial Eve lived around 110-130,000 years ago, rather than 150,000-200,000 years ago. I have no idea how solid this idea of a mitochondrial Eve is. However, assuming that it is valid, what follows is

Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-06 Thread S. Artesian
You're right, you have no idea how solid this idea is. And your catastrophe theory proves it. First the mitochondrial Eve and the primal Adam did not exist at the same time. Secondly, the mitochondrial Eve is not every human's common ancestor. She is the Most Recent Common Ancestor of all

Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-06 Thread Mark Lause
Again, I claim to be nothing but a rank amateur in following these things. And I'm not entirely sure what the point of confusion is here... Let's start by throwing out the entire Biblical language the media used to spin the original story. The term Eve was in the post because it was in the

Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-06 Thread Waistline2
I have no idea how solid this idea of a mitochondrial Eve is. However, assuming that it is valid, what follows is that at some time in the evolution of *homo sapiens sapiens* there occurred such an enormous catastrophe that in the whole world only one *hss* couple survived, and so all the

Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-06 Thread S. Artesian
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Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-06 Thread Shane Mage
On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:06 AM, S. Artesian wrote: Yes, Eve had sisters-- guess what? They all had the same mitochondrial DNA. And if they did, they all had the same female ancestor. You may send us from Eve to Lilith, but the Lilith and her sisters problem remains the same as the Eve

Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-06 Thread Mark Lause
Of course it can, Shane. The way to think of this is to go back before the Eve and ask how those lines disappeared. Every time a new human is created, it'll have the mitochondrial DNA of its mother's mother and that of its father's mother isn't passed on. Every role of the dice loses 50%. So,

Re: [Marxism] Tweaking of DNA dating on human evolution

2009-09-06 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 9/7/2009 12:07:27 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, shm...@pipeline.com writes: But what is the probability that, out of an interbreeding population large enough to speciate, all but *one* maternal line will gradually become extinct? Darwinian evolution can't handle the