Things you wish you could say

[tripletfeb]

The genealogists claim everyone is descended from a single "Eve".

The more DNA results they get, the less that I hear this claim.

Science has a funny way of proving itself wrong

 

[AMM10]

Not me.

I call your bluff and raise you 10x.

The genealogists claim everyone is descended from a single "Eve".

The more DNA results they get, the less that I hear this claim.

We are all descendants from the same common ancestor.

Definitely not “Eve” in the same sense as was falsely made up.

 

[LaurenRitz]

The genealogists claim everyone is descended from a single "Eve".

The more DNA results they get, the less that I hear this claim.

The question is complicated by the fact that there are a number of genetic bottlenecks, where the human race was reduced to only a handful of survivors. The most recent is recorded in nearly every culture as a flood. It is entirely possible that at some point there was only one set of survivors, one family. We can't discount it just because the current evidence for modern humans doesn't show this.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Take it this way. If your heart is weighed on scale against a feather in the underworld and your heart ends up being heavier than the feather then that’s not a good thing.

I'd be screwed if that was true

 

[AMM10]

I'd be screwed if that was true

Children of the sun won’t lie to you.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Children of the sun won’t lie to you.

.....ok....?

 

[AMM10]

.....ok....?

What I mean is life is what you make the most of. Don’t ever be an a**hole to people you care about.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

What I mean is life is what you make the most of. Don’t ever be an a**hole to people you care about.

Weirdly telling me something I needed to hear

 

[NatJ]

The genealogists claim everyone is descended from a single "Eve".

The more DNA results they get, the less that I hear this claim.

Even if everyone is descended from one particular woman, it may not tell much about how many other people were alive at the time.

For example:
I am descended from my great grandmother. I have a cousin who is descended from the same great grandmother. But we each have 3 other great grandmothers who were living about the same time (plus 4 great grandfathers). The one great-grandma that I share with my cousin is our common ancestor but she is not the only ancestor of either of us.

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

You put unrealistic expectations on me and then criticize me when I physically cannot meet them.