Y Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve: Polygenism and probabilistic considerations

[no one]

Some of that dust came from the old naval academy.

[LinuxGal]

That's just the Schrödinger's jebus hypothesis.

Schrödinger’s cat:   The cat dies when quantum superposition ends.

Schrödinger’s Jesus:   Superstitious belief in Jesus ends when you die

Schrödinger’s Jesus:

Matthew 29:7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him...

Luke 24:33-36 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them...and as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

[Rev. Rye]

And something nobody mentioned earlier in this thread: there’s a lot of dispute about the ages of said Y-Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve. There’s even a strong possibility that not only did they never meet, but that they were born thousands of years apart. One recent estimate went as far as saying that “Adam” was born 140,000 years before “Eve.”

[Anomalocaris]

And something nobody mentioned earlier in this thread: there’s a lot of dispute about the ages of said Y-Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve. There’s even a strong possibility that not only did they never meet, but that they were born thousands of years apart. One recent estimate went as far as saying that “Adam” was born 140,000 years before “Eve.”

There is absolutely no genetic reason why Mitochondrial Eve or y-chromosomal adam need to even be of the same species as each other, nor does either of them have to be of the same species as us.    The only requirement is both are individually somewhere on the line of ancestry leading Down to us.    

In fact mitochondrial Eve’s chronological place on the line of ancestry down to us makes it probable that she was an archaic homo sapien,  Y-chromosomal Adam’s much earlier place makes his species affiliation unclear.    He was probably too early to have been a Homo sapien.

[Bucky Ball]

And something nobody mentioned earlier in this thread: there’s a lot of dispute about the ages of said Y-Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve. There’s even a strong possibility that not only did they never meet, but that they were born thousands of years apart. One recent estimate went as far as saying that “Adam” was born 140,000 years before “Eve.”

There is absolutely no genetic reason why Mitochondrial Eve or y-chromosomal adam need to even be of the same species as each other, nor does either of them have to be of the same species as us.    The only requirement is both are individually somewhere on the line of ancestry leading Down to us.    

In fact mitochondrial Eve’s chronological place on the line of ancestry down to us makes it probable that she was an archaic homo sapien,  Y-chromosomal Adam’s much earlier place makes his species affiliation unclear.    He was probably too early to have been a Homo sapien.

Party pooper.