No word about Adam and Eve

Christian Century, Jan 27, 2004

NO WORD ABOUT ADAM AND EVE: Humans are so closely related to each other that there is less genetic diversity among them than there is in a small group of chimpanzees. In fact, last year some geneticists concluded that all humans have descended from a population of as few as 2,000 hunter-gatherers who lived in northern African from 70,000 to 140,000 years ago.

This claim supports the controversial theory that all Homo sapiens come from Africa. Studying mutations in 1,056 individuals in 52 population groups around the world, these geneticists are tracking the successive waves of migration from Africa to Europe, Asia and the Americas (Discover, January).