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"Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old"?

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"Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old"?
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RE: "Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old"?
March 8, 2013 at 11:33 am (This post was last modified: March 8, 2013 at 11:45 am by Anomalocaris.)
(March 8, 2013 at 11:24 am)popeyespappy Wrote:
(March 8, 2013 at 6:34 am)A Theist Wrote: Thought this may be interesting to you guys...DNA evidence has revealed that humans may be older than first expected...what does everyone think....


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fat...33011.html

This doesn't really indicate that "humans" are older than expected. It pushes the age of the oldest common male ancestor back, but does not necessitate that he was Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

The article misrepresents the implication, and in fact contradicts itself. The finding suggest not the oldest, but the most recent common male ancestor of living humans lived much earlier then thought.

The oldest common male ancestor of all humans would also be the oldest common male ancestrr between humans, chimpanzees, tyrannosaurs, trilobites, and velvet worms, and is undoubtedly some single celled organism living more than 2 billion years ago.
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RE: "Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old"? - by Anomalocaris - March 8, 2013 at 11:33 am

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