From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jul 3 21:23:33 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k643NXjb026602; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:23:33 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k643NW0p011515 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:23:32 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k640kOFI011041 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:46:24 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k640kOGG011040 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:46:24 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k63K0jFI010460 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:00:45 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k63MbfWt023638 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:37:41 -0600 X-Envelope-From: 4uswqp602@sneakemail.com Mon Jul 3 16:37:41 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k63Mbfjb023629 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:37:41 -0600 Received: from monkey.sneakemail.com (sneakemail.com [38.113.6.61]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k63Mbcsj004942 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:37:38 -0600 Received: (qmail 29760 invoked by uid 501); 3 Jul 2006 22:37:30 -0000 Received: (sneakemail censored 25129-85939 #1); 3 Jul 2006 22:37:30 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 15:37:25 -0700 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com From: "Bob" <4uswqp602@sneakemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200607031926.k63JQLfQ006177@lists5.rootsweb.com> References: <200607031926.k63JQLfQ006177@lists5.rootsweb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <25129-85939@sneakemail.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow ** Reply to message from "TD " on Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:26:21 -0600 > Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in > East Asia  Taiwan, Malaysia and Siberia all are likely locations. He  > or she  did nothing more remarkable than be born, live, have children > and die. > That means everybody on Earth descends from somebody who was around as > recently as the reign of Tutankhamen, maybe even during the Golden Age > of ancient Greece. There's even a chance that our last shared ancestor > lived at the time of Christ. I say that is impossible. Nobody that recent in time could be an ancestor of everyone alive today. More likely a few HUNDRED thousand years ago. -- Robert Blair