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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.roots,net.women,net.flame,net.misc,net.religion
Subject: Re: A Common Female Ancestor for Everyone
Message-ID: <5493@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 12:28:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 10 12:28:09 1983
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Organization: Math.Centre, Amsterdam
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>All living people (or at least ~99% of them) have a single common female
>ancestor on their purely maternal line.  In other words, tracing back to
>one's mother's mother's mother's ... mother will bring everyone back to a
>single individual woman.  She is estimated to have lived between 50,000 and
>500,000 years ago.

Fine! But please explain: how comes the oldest fossil hominid skull is
about 2,000,000 years old! Must have been only males then living at that
time....
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	Piet Beertema
	Center for Math. & Comp. Science (CWI), Amsterdam
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