Scientists: All humans descended from 2 people

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Some food for thought.

Every person was spawned from single pair of adults living up to 200,000 years ago, scientists claim | Daily Mail Online

All modern humans descended from a solitary pair who lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, scientists say.

Scientists surveyed the genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals - including humans - from 100,000 different species and deduced that we sprang from a single pair of adults after a catastrophic event almost wiped out the human race.

These bar codes, or snippets of DNA that reside outside the nuclei of living cells, suggest that it's not just people who came from a single pair of beings, but nine out of every 10 animal species, too

Stoeckle and Thaler, the scientists who headed the study, concluded that ninety percent of all animal species alive today come from parents that all began giving birth at roughly the same time, less than 250 thousand years ago - throwing into doubt the patterns of human evolution.

'This conclusion is very surprising,' Thaler admitted, 'and I fought against it as hard as I could.'

The new report from experts at the Rockefeller University along with from the University of Basel published the extraordinary findings in Human Evolution.

The research was led by Senior Research Associate Mark Stoeckle and Research Associate David Thaler of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

They mined 'big data' insights from the world's fast-growing genetic databases and reviewed a large literature in evolutionary theory, including Darwin.

Dr Stoeckle said: 'At a time when humans place so much emphasis on individual and group differences, maybe we should spend more time on the ways in which we resemble one another and the rest of the animal kingdom.'

The conclusions throw up considerable mystery as to why the need for human life to start again was needed such a relatively short time ago, especially since the last known extinction we know of was during the time of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

This opens up the possibility of an inbuilt human evolutionary process wherein we break down and die out, leaving the need to start from scratch.
The research deduced that humans and animals sprang from single pair - as did animals

We're also surprisingly similar to not just every other human, but every other species.

'If a Martian landed on Earth and met a flock of pigeons and a crowd of humans, one would not seem more diverse than the other according to the basic measure of mitochondrial DNA,' said Jesse Ausubel, Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University.

'Culture, life experience and other things can make people very different but in terms of basic biology, we're like the birds,' Dr Stoeckle added.

The 'mitochondrial DNA' examined in the research is that which mothers pass down from generation to generation and it showed the 'absence of human exceptionalism.'

'One might have thought that, due to their high population numbers and wide geographic distribution, humans might have led to greater genetic diversity than other animal species,' added Stoeckle.

'At least for mitochondrial DNA, humans turn out to be low to average in genetic diversity.'

The study has been misunderstood by some religious parties who thought it meant that we all came into being in some seminal Big Bang-typed event 100,000 ago, but this isn't what the findings actually suggest.

What Stoeckle and Thaler's findings point to is that our species has to revamp far more often than we thought, and we do so in unison with all animals.
 

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Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
 

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Is this another instance of science proving the Bible correct?

Can't be. The Bible says the earth is only 6,000 years old.

If this research is validated, I guess we're all severely inbred. Which explains a lot, now that I think about it.
 

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Is this another instance of science proving the Bible correct?

Maybe. Now you’ve got me thinking...

Science deals in facts. Facts are a subset of truth, not a substitute for it. I have no difficulty reconciling the Bible as a repository of truth with the facts science discovers. Science digs into the how and what of our universe. It cannot address the why - or the why not.

For example, science discovered how to mine fossil fuels from the earth, convert them into outrageously powerful uses from the internal combustion engine to plastics and so on. The extraordinary advances such discoveries have brought are astounding. Those are also leading environmental concerns today.

The Genesis narrative teaches that humans are to be good stewards of the creation. Such guidance is necessary to shape the proper use of what science can do.
 

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Can't be. The Bible says the earth is only 6,000 years old.

If this research is validated, I guess we're all severely inbred. Which explains a lot, now that I think about it.

Well, how reliable is the scientists’ latest timetable? Many believe the Grand Canyon took millions of years to form from a steady-state, slow erosion process... but almost 40 years of scientific observation of Mount St. Helens (post-eruption) indicate an accelerated development of geological formations, strata, etc that raises significant questions, especially if you consider the possibility of a massive catastrophe involving a large quantity of water.
 

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