{"id":2613,"date":"2004-09-29T23:42:54","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T03:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/09\/29\/yale-claims-adam-and-eve-lived-3000-ye"},"modified":"2004-09-29T23:42:54","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T03:42:54","slug":"yale-claims-adam-and-eve-lived-3000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/09\/29\/yale-claims-adam-and-eve-lived-3000-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale Claims Adam and Eve Lived 3,000 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n ‘Most recent common ancestor’ of all living humans
\n surprisingly recent<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

New Haven, Conn. — In this week’s issue of Nature, a Yale mathematician presents
\nmodels showing that the most recent person who was a direct ancestor of all humans
\ncurrently alive may have lived just a few thousand years ago.<\/p>\n


\n“While we may not all be ‘brothers,’ the models suggest we are all hundredth cousins or so,” said Joseph T. Chang<\/A>, professor in the Department of Statistics<\/A> at Yale University<\/A> and senior author on the paper.
\n <\/P><\/p>\n

from Yale
\n University press release <\/a>via Eureka Alert<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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