Adam and Eve? One Couple Spawned Humanity, Study Claims

From News Max.com (Nov. 25):

Despite a scientist fighting "hard" against the claim, humanity spawned from a single pair which lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, according to a new study, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported.

"This conclusion is very surprising,'" University of Basel, Switzerland, research associate David Thaler told the paper. "And I fought against it as hard as I could."

Senior Research Associate Mark Stoeckle and Thaler surveyed the DNA of five million animals, including humans, "and deduced that we sprang from a single pair of adults after a catastrophic event almost wiped out the human race," per the report.

Stoeckle and Thaler concluded that 90 percent of all of today's animal species come from parents that all began giving birth at roughly the same time, less than 250 thousand years ago, leaving some doubt on human evolution. [read more]