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From: falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio,soc.women
Subject: Re: Univerrsal Common Female Ancestor
Message-ID: <30588@sun.uucp>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 00:15:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 00:15:17 1987
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In article <1248@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> In article <894@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> elturner@phoenix.Princeton.EDU 
> (Edwin L Turner) writes:
> 
>      All living people (or at least ~99% of them) have a single common
>      female ancestor on their purely maternal line....
> 
> I wonder why Creationists haven't picked up on this.

They will, once they've explained away the fact that "Eve" lived at
least 50,000 years ago; kinda goes against the biblical version.

Also, bear in mind that "Eve" wasn't *the* common ancestor, she was
*a* common ancestor.  All they know is that we can all claim direct
descendancy from her somewhere in our past.

I remember something about there being a very small population (as few
as six) of women from whom we all come.  "Eve" was the only one of this
group who we *all* can list in our ancestry.

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