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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio,soc.women
Subject: Re: Univerrsal Common Female Ancestor
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Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 23:29:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 23:29:06 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:
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<     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.

Easy, the same evidence also shows that this common ancestor was too far back
to fit in with the Bible. And this (and similar) evidence also shows "recent"
common ancestors with gorillas (and very slightly les recent with chiimps).

As I recall, human DNA is similar enough to gorilla that a hybrid would
quite likely be viable! Of course, no one is going to try it. It is a real
can of worms ethically....

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