Human brain evolution continued after we evolved

@anon46279830,

Exactly… to preserve SOME of it. But how would we know? Do you think God feels strongly that a fragment of the Adam genome survives? Or was God more interested in the most common configurations being the bread & butter genes of Adam and Eve?

It may well be that the most common alleles are the very alleles A&E were built with!

After that thread you posted about the First Italians, I thought you were gonna say he was an H. Erectus.

So you have new requirements for your GA - it has to be UNAVOIDABLY undetectable in all living people’s and ancient people’s genomes AND it has to have a non-remarkable genetic signature. This makes GA completely unprovable by science. Great. Another “take it on faith moment”

There may be no way to know. Some would say it is not detectable by science, I say It is not necessarily detectable be science.

@Patrick?

Has to be? How about UNAVOIDABLY undetectable?

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Yes, the first Italian H. Erectus was another one of my GAs. I have as many as I want to have.

I don’t say it has to be undetectable. I say it is not necessarily detectable. There are non-rare circumstances in which it would not be detectable. That is not new. It has been a part of GA from the start. It would be true of any single individual with a non-remarkable genome mixed into a population of at least 10K.

GA can’t be much much earlier? 2 millions years ago, perhaps?

@Patrick,

Creationists can put Adam where ever they want. Most pick a time between 6000 kya and 120,000 kya.

Adam does not have to be the first man in GA. He could have come along less than 10 K ago and still be mixed up in the family tree of every living human.

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Well then he could have been the Neanderthal who mated with a Sapien 40,000 years ago in Romania. It was a short love affair. By the pond. No talking snake any where in sight.

Nupe. That would be detectable. The hybridization event in all living humans was around 55K ago. We can tell by how chopped up the neanderthal-looking segments are.

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Reminiscing on your Genealogical Adam again? How sweet: Atheist Declares His Adam - #3 by Patrick.

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I still say it might be true. :slight_smile: I fondly remember my grandmother’s story about being told the story when she was young.

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I see no compelling reason for making Theological Adam a Neanderthal… and you making that kind of comment reveals how little you are able to look at the work here objectively.

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I have compelling reason for making my GA a Neanderthal. It would fit with my grandmother’s story told to me when I was very young. How is that different from what you are doing?

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I think what strikes me is how long you have been here now, and how much talking you have done, but still so little understand what is a major theme of this site. Either God, or evolution, or both gave us two ears and one mouth.

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