If this is possible in the 1st and 2nd century, then what is possible 4000 years earlier, or a couple of millennia? Could we actually be from a single source as written?
I have heard of "The Seven Daughters of Eve" before which states that ALL people came from 7 women. Do a google search on them and you will find many sites and books on them including one that will test your DNA and tell you which daughter you decend from.
If this is possible in the 1st and 2nd century, then what is possible 4000 years earlier, or a couple of millennia? Could we actually be from a single source as written?
It's possible.
Does anyone on any side of any particular creation myth/ theory think not ?
I kinda assumed this was a basic starting point for most every origin tale/theory in the world.
I suppose that under the theory of evolution the matter is a little less clear cut: the ancestral origins mean that life probably started from a first single reproducing cell around 4 billion years ago. However, the distinction between species is a story of gradual development that would make it hard to identify a single modern human "Eve" at any one time.
It is interesting to note that some genetic strains have been significantly successful so as to result in this analysis being possible.
I would note that the Seven Daughters of Eve book does not purport to explain the maternal history of all people, but (from a quick google search) only European people. It is written by a geneticist and is fully housed within the evolutionary model (and the earliest of the "daughters" is theorised to have been alive 45,000 years ago).
