The Scientific Adam

[Rockfan]

I just finished watching a doco on national geographic about the scientific Adam. They traced everyone back to one common ancestor in east africa who lived 60'000 years ago. They did it using mutations on the male Y chromosone. The thory is that he was the first to think like a modern human, possibly he invented new and better tools or was a better speaker and used click talk. Anyway all this made in popular with woman so he had many off spring passing his mutation of the Y chromosone on to all his sons, so now every male has it. The time is, this Adam would have been black. All the pictures you see of the fabiled bible adam make hime out as a well sculpted Italian but he most likly was a scruffy black man clad in a loin cloth. I'ed love to see the reactions of some fundimentalists to that :P .

Just thorugh you guys might like to know ha.

[DarkAngel]

I saw that too :) Homoerectus was sexy....

[bezdomni]

Sorry, double posted on accident.

[bezdomni]

It's also fun to let fundamentalists to know that Jesus was an Arab Jew. All of the paintings of him (at least in the west) are completely wrong. Just more proof that man creates God in his own image, not the other way around.


If Jesus went to an American airport today, they would make him take off his shoes, open up his bags and cavity search him.

[Severian]

Originally posted by [email protected] 29 2005, 09:10 PM
The thory is that he was the first to think like a modern human, possibly he invented new and better tools or was a better speaker and used click talk. Anyway all this made in popular with woman so he had many off spring passing his mutation of the Y chromosone on to all his sons, so now every male has it.
Could be. Or simple random genetic drift could produce that effect, of gradually reducing variation as some guys just randomly don't have sons...in fact this kind of study usually assumes random genetic drift in arriving at its date....if selection was involved the date might be different.

This guy isn't a literal "Adam", our single ancestor of the time, nor is "Mitochondrial Eve" a literal Eve. There were other men and women around at their times, or the species woulda died out from inbreeding. And we inherit other chromosomes from those other people. But since mitochondria and Y chromosomes are only inherited from a single parent, variation can eventually die out....