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Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 12:28:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 10 12:28:09 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Nov-83 13:01:53 EST
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 > All living people (or at least ~99% of them) have a single common female
 > ancestor on their purely maternal line.  In other words, tracing back to
 > one's mother's mother's mother's ... mother will bring everyone back to a
 > single individual woman.  She is estimated to have lived between 50,000 and
 > 500,000 years ago.

Fine! But please explain: how comes the oldest fossil hominid skull is
about 2,000,000 years old! Must have been only males then living at that
time....
-- 
	Piet Beertema
	Center for Math. & Comp. Science (CWI), Amsterdam
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