Seagull
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You are just showing how little you understand Francie. What evidence? The fact that her body shows clear signs of being bipedal, a hallmark of hominins, human ancestors. The fact that footprints dated over 3 million years old, around the time she was around, show bipedal walking. Her teeth have less pronounced canines, more human like than chimp like. So what if 30-40% of her skeleton was found, that still makes her one of the most compete ancient hominins ever found and it still contained crucial body parts that are essential for studying posture and movement. There was n
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You mush be even sadder to obsess over a complete stranger on the internet, and you've been on here much longer than me you full blown sad case. I don't try to be anyone, but unlike you, I'll never be a wrong un in real life.
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Which has been pointed out to you, shares a common ancestor. Obviously we can't say for certain if she is a direct ancestor to us or a side branch that ended up at a dead end, but that still doesn't change the fact that her species shared a common ancestor with us.
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Not bad for a two horse race....
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Lucy was a hominem but she definitely wasn't homosapien.
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Oasis were that bad?
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That's a hippo. Lol
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No mate, her remains are way too old to extract DNA, Lucy is over 3 million years old.
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No mate, that's a different thing altogether mate, Lucy is the one of the oldest discovered humans, not homosapien though.
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No, we all are mate, but it doesn't mean we got all our DNA from just her, remember it's just tracing the mitochondrial DNA, some of those branches were broken because the woman lineage ended, but the woman may have had a son.
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To get a better grasp, imagine your family tree with millions of branches, it's like highlighting the branches that strictly go from mother to daughter. Every time a woman had no daughter or her daughters line ended, that branch is gone. After enough generations there would only be one remaining branch left that stays connected to everyone alive today. The person left at the root is Mitochondrial Eve.
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We are mate, but it's just a theory, what she is, is the most recent common ancestor to us all on the maternal line. Mitochondrial DNA is only passed on through mother to daughter and so on, etc. So when we trace this one single line back in time though mother's only, you eventually reach one woman from whom everyone alive today inherited their DNA.
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Let's try and keep fiction out of this mate.
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Still half our till Sunday school mate....
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I don't think it means that, it doesn't mean that we all descend from just the one woman, Mitochondrial Eve isn't the only ancestor of modern humans, she's just the most recent common ancestor of everyone's maternal line. All the other people of that time also passed their genes, just not unbroken on the maternal side. It's basically a theory which traces the most recent unbroken maternal ancestor.
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That's what the latest genetics suggest though mate, all the humans of non African descent come from a relatively small population of perhaps only a few thousand. But, this wasn't the only time they migrated out of Africa, ghost populations have been discovered that are not closely genetically related to us, now imagine that, extinct lineages of modern humans that died out before the last out of Africa expansion.
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Yep, and we interbred with them which makes it all the more fascinating.
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Well, there is a mitochondrial Eve. Lol
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It has always been thought that the cradle of humanity was Sub-Saharan Africa, but skeletons discovered in Morocco are the oldest remains of homosapiens ever found, they confirm that we are much older than we once thought.
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That's what's fascinating, go far enough back and we will all share a common ancestor. That's why I have to laugh when folk get uptight when we discuss human history.
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I think it's a bit of a myth, his lineage is very rare in Europe.
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It's quite sad and interesting our history, we have this romantic idea that we descend from the people that made Stonehenge, when in reality over 90% of the gene pool was replaced by people's from the Steppes. History has shown throughout the globe, nothing is set in stone, and the population of any given area very rarely is a reflection of the past.
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Sorted.
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I'm not saying they would beat him, who can truly know, but, he is of the same genetic ancestry as those from West Africa, who on the population level happen to be blessed with more fast twitch muscle fibres than say you or I for example. He doesn't have better or worse genetics than them at the base level, he just has great physical attributes and has been raised to be an athlete by one of the most competitive nations in sprinting history.
