Thanks !!... got any links for all that ??And, if it makes a difference, I firmly BELIEVE that all of humanity descends from a family from Africa.
I read somewhere a study that suggests that the current variety of human genetics can be traced back to only a few thousand people scattered around the world 75,000 years ago after some sort of cataclysmic event that reduced worldwide populations of several hominid species from many millions.
Anyway, the point is that there is no one family to be traced back to. There was interbreeding with extinct hominids over millions of years. Its like saying all dogs can be traced back to one wolf pack.
Not true.
their ancestors were wolves but dingos,jackals, coyotes, foxes, etc., were also involved.
Some ancestors of modern humans were not human at all.
For instance, more than 8% of the human genome is a virus, a part of our own DNA, that has been descending through the human lineage affecting the evolution of the species for about 700,000 years.
The story of Adam is just a story of a more highly evolved form of intelligent life compassionately attempting to civilize educate and refine a person like Kaspar Hauser or Victor of Aveyron , without success.
How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C.
" the technical term is 40 "breeding pairs" (children not included). More likely there was a drastic dip and then 5,000 to 10,000 bedraggled Homo sapiens struggled together in pitiful little clumps hunting and gathering for thousands of years until, in the late Stone Age, we humans began to recover. "
8 Percent of Human Genome Was Inserted By Virus, and May Cause Schizophrenia
Interesting that non human viral DNA within our own genome might affect thoughts in the mind, isn't it?
19 Pieces Of Non-Human DNA Found In Human Genome
"Significance: ...... By examining >2,500 sequenced genomes, we have discovered 19 previously unidentified HERV-K insertions, including an intact provirus without apparent substitutions that would alter viral function, only the second such provirus described. Our results provide a basis for future studies of HERV evolution and implication for disease."
Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron