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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (327282)12/10/2002 6:59:20 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
Re: "to have scientific data prove that we are all related to but one".

>>> Aye, but there's the 'rub'!

>>> Because the 'Eve' mRNA data doesn't 'prove' that... as was made very clear by the researchers when they published their results.

>>> They said the mRNA data was consistent with a single 'Eve', and also consistent with a small (larger than one, obviously) founding population of anatomically modern humans... but from which by chance and history all the other female-descended mRNA lines had died out over the years, leaving just the one in modern populations.

>>> The available data can't 'prove' either theory is exclusively true.