Who Was Mitochondrial Eve?

This video explains the concepts of Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Nuclear Adam, what their relationship to evolution and human lineage is, and how creationists claims about them are just pathetically wrong.

Update: More news on the controversy over whether Neanderthals were the same species as humans.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• adam
• eve
• creation
• creationism
• evolution
• mitochondria
• mtdna
• nuclear
• nucleus
• chromosome

[MrPerfectlogic]

Very good explanation! My question is why only eve decedents survived and later on only adam decedents survived?

[shanedk]

@MrPerfectlogic That isn't the case; watch the video again. There were LOTS of other common ancestors; Adam and Eve were just the most recent among the male-only and female-only lines.

[BringBRToTheUK]

This really helped me to understand the idea, so thanks a lot.

I think people who understand science should spend less time arguing with people who don't want to understand it (creationists) and more time teaching it to those who do. Certainly a more productive expendure of time for all parties.

Richard Dawkins taught me a lot in his books 'The Selfish Gene' and 'Ancestor's Tale'. Sadly, he then went on to write 'The God Delusion' - a waste of a brilliant mind. It sold better though...

[shanedk]

@Maliboubarbie We all have the same 500 character limit and it doesn't stop any of us. Stop making excuses.

[chairde]

@shanedk I suggest that you view "All NON-Africans are NOT "out-of-africa", and you will see that it is rated up to 4%. Some say one percent and another says two percent in the video.

[shanedk]

@chairde I believe you're just talking about the mtDNA; we have more in our nuclear genome.

[chairde]

@halalmeatz Non African people have some (4%) neanderthal in their DNA. It means that their ancestors had sex with neanderthals at one time. Neanderthal is not and never was the source of Caucasian DNA.

[halalmeatz]

I thought I read i n a news week or US weekly around spring of 2003 that the neanderthal genome was considered the source of Caucasian DNA?? am I completely stupid about that??

[kotoroshinoto]

@DePetrick so they were different spcies in the sense that different bear species are different. Most modern ursids can reproduce with other extant ursid species, but they're still considered separate species due to behavioral mating seperations.

[DePetrick]

@kotoroshinoto its more complicated; it is known that they both would have lived together in Europe in the last period of Neanderthals . And recent findings show that both might as well have mixed at that time. So the few Neandertals left (not adapted phisically to the changing climate) were "absorbed"

No wonder some Neaderthals are still living today! LOL

[DePetrick]

Why don't you just say like it is: that ,according to creationists, there wasn't even a woman left when Cain killed Abel ;-))

Million creation idiots have wasted their entire live on trying to explain how the entire human race olny came forth from Cain. So, they are now very quit about that "miracle" ;-)

[DePetrick]

@managarm1349 

[managarm1349]

u dont actually expect creationists to understand this do you?

[kotoroshinoto]

As far as I know, neanderthals aren't considered to be the same species, unless they've been reclassified as a subspecies.