Category: Human Origins
“Unique Human Origins”: Explained
One scenario involves a first human pair created from scratch — Adam and Eve, as many traditional religious believers would have it.
From Ann Gauger and Ola Hössjer, a New Standard for the Science of a “First Couple”
Their scrupulous work found that Jerry Coyne and others, in bullying Christians and Jews on how “we can dismiss a physical Adam and Eve with near scientific certainty,” were in reality poorly supported.
More Backstory on Our First-Couple Paper: Why Wasn’t This Done Before?
For the last forty years, population geneticists have repeatedly said that our population was never smaller than several thousand.
A First Couple? Here’s the Backstory
Could humanity have had its origin in a first pair, or did it have to come from a population of at least several thousand?
New BIO-Complexity Paper: We Could Have Come from Two
New research confirms the possibility of a starting point of two humans instead of thousands. Ann Gauger reports.