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From: "Glen Todd" <>
Subject: RE: [YKS] Blue blood at last
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:06:54 -0700
In-Reply-To: <4418EB10.7010804@comcast.net>




> my wife's sister traced their lines back to Adam and Eve, who, of
> course, if you take the Biblical genealogy literally, were living
> around 4000 BC, so were a lot later than Y-chromosome Adam and
> mitochondrial Eve. <g>

Indeed - which makes amusing hash of the entire argument - unless, of
course, you accept that it's a teaching story - a simplified allegorical
explanation of a much longer and more complex process - and not intended to
be literal history.

Glen

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