#37 Women in History: Eve - Our African Ancestor?

Last week I introduced the topic of Eve.
Who is this lady and why are men the ones writing about our sister?
I included some really good links to picture of Eve in history.

NEWS ALERT:

No matter what is portrayed in those museum picture links....

Eve is not some white gal with flowing blonde hair covering her whatevers.

The majority of researchers now contend that Eve originated from Africa.

No one is arguing that data.

But, what is currently under question is if we came from one genetic pool ; a single African ancestor.

The current contention is, "NO."

This goes completely against the writings of the Old Testament, Genesis.

Researchers are finding that humanity developed into different races to adapt to different environmental conditions.

This required more than one gal to create such diversity.

With the advent of DNA science... technically we should all have some African mitochondrial DNA.

But, scientists discovered remains in Australia over 60,000 years old that did not.

How could this be?

Specualtion is that our original homo sapiens may have intergrated with primitive people and thus the genetic diversity.

Who knows?

Is this important?

I would say yes for the simple fact that Eve, who has been considered the originator of a load of humanity's problems has been shouldering a large burden for millenia.

All is not what it appears to have been.

History truly is malleable and as the researchers continus to plunge into the origins of our ancestry... it will be interesting to find what (if any) changes may occur on the icon known as Eve.

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