Ambivalence wrote:
Go back far enough, sure.
this is what I kind of get confused on, Y chromosomal Adam...so apparently there were lots of Adam wannabe's running around but their offspring all died and we are all the offspring of y-chrom Adam...but who is his father. And Mitochondrial Eve is, I think, alot older and further back than Adam...it seems like it would be right at the turning of evolution, chimp to human, but it isn't, it's the humans that managed to survive. I guess.
I wish I could read this blog. I always thought blue eyes came about as a result of albinism back in the day in Africa, but that's a genetic mutation that could have happened more than once, so I wonder why they think it's a common ancestor.
edit: Okay I read it, that's really interesting. It really isn't as far back as I thought. I wonder how they know it only happened once. And I raise my glass to the ancestor. Spencer Wells found this guy in one of the "istans" in Asia whose DNA went back 40,000 years. It was funny because the guy thought that Dr. Wells was coming to tell him he had cancer.