Sotos wrote:I think I've seen one of those episodes of "The Original Eve". But what about "The Original Adam". If Eve mated with somebody who was less human wouldn't the offspring be less human as well? Maybe Oracle could tell us if evolution can have setbacks sometimes.
There were other Humans around like Eve at that time ... but it just so happens that along the way, maybe even centuries later, their offspring didn't survive, for one reason or another (influenza, plague etc). The fathers were no less Human. But of the surviving oldest Y-chromosome markers, there were probably down to 7 males who contributed to the line we descended from ... so we really are very closely related as a species
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