12-01-2008, 05:51 PM
JoeH wrote:
Misstated facts to boot. The genetic markers actually imply a small, related group of women about 150,000 years ago and the same for males at the other point in time. It was articles in the popular, not scientific press that "exaggerated" the story to a single ancestor.
Do you have information to back that up? Here's the link I intended to cite (I don't know how that car salesman link got in there): http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessn...9121.shtml
There are many other links that state exactly the same thing, and Spencer Wells (the guy in charge of the genographic project) said exactly what I said. I haven't heard the hypothesis you state.