Tag: bottleneck
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?
#4 of Our Top Stories of 2018: A First Human Couple? New Evidence and Arguments
A bottleneck of two, or a first pair at our origin older than 500,000 years, is possible.
Merry Christmas! #8 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Humans and Animals Are (Mostly) the Same Age?
I am intrigued, but to be honest, I don’t quite know what to make of it just yet, and don’t want to jump to any conclusions.