Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!convex!schumach From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: We've got Eve. Now what about Adam? Message-ID: Date: 21 Dec 90 00:02:15 GMT References: <15461@cs.utexas.edu> <0bLsVz600Vpb0ftUp_@andrew.cmu.edu> <15566@cs.utexas.edu> <1110@ai.cs.utexas.edu> <22079@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <1990Dec11.105612.2009@desire.wright.edu> Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: magnum.convex.com In <1990Dec11.105612.2009@desire.wright.edu> sbishop@desire.wright.edu writes: > BTW, the main complaint is that using >The Eve Theory, all other lines of humans around the world at that time >are considered to have gone extinct. This is a common misunderstanding. The "Eve theory" means only that there are no unbroken matrilineal lines going back to other females alive at the time of "Eve". Certainly any number of the other females alive at that time could have lving descendents, but only through a male descendent at some point so that their mitochondria were not passed along.