To: Webster Groves who wrote (58237 ) 11/24/2009 12:47:34 AM From: Maurice Winn 2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217931 Webby, to those without the good quality brain DNA, that is indeed a puzzle. <<the father of all non-Africans having left Africa only 30,000 years ago and the mother of all non-Africans only 90,000 years ago> > They are confused by the Adam and Eve idea. In fact, men and women are different species which are symbiotic with characteristics which make them look passably similar. Some men like to dress up and pretend to be women, but they can never do a good enough job to fool a passably astute eye. For those who are confused by the 30,000 years vs 90,000 years, imagine a woman a million years ago and a bloke a million years ago discovering a way out of Africa, into a vast new world with no humans at all and subsequently having millions of descendants. Let's call them Adam and Eve. So the world is humming along with say 100 million people all over the place. Then, 1,000 years ago, a tough bloke left Africa who was also very very charming to the ladies. He arrived in the first town, killed all the men and "married" all the ladies. He showed them how to grow corn so there was plenty of food right there. 20 years later, he and his 500 sons decided to leave a few of their brothers with the ladies in the village and move on. They went in different directions and found 50 towns nearby. They killed all the males they found and "married" all the ladies. Heck, before you know it, there were 5,000 brothers in arms all fancying a piece of the action. So a whole lot of them left town and went further and conquered and killed men in all the towns and cities and farms and everywhere they went, marrying hordes of women who were grateful for the attentions and new found wealth and to be rid of the useless men who had been the best they could find. Within 500 years, let alone 1,000, the whole world was repopulated with the new men out of Africa. So the father of all non-African humans was only 500 years ago and the mother of all non-African humans still was Eve from long long ago. Now anyone who was confused can see how it works. Mqurice