Rex Kerr
May 13, 2023

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You're off by about a factor of 10 in the number of years.

I think you might have misread Wikipedia: "given the false assumption of random mate choice without geographic barriers, the Identical Ancestors Point for all humans would be surprisingly recent, on the order of 5,000-15,000 years ago".

Also, just because you have the same ancestors it does not follow that you inherit equally from them. Hence Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

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One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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