All Humans Descend from One Couple That Lived 200,000 Years Ago

A new, revolutionary scientific study has discovered that all modern humans were spawned from a single couple, hundreds of thousands of years ago. Furthermore, researchers also found that 9 out of 10 animal species also descend from one specific couple, according to a new study published by scientists from the University of Basel (Switzerland) and Rockefeller University (NY, USA).

By surveying the genetic barcodes of more than five million animals–as well as humans–from 100,00 different species inhabiting Earth, scientists concluded that we ‘spawned’ from a  single pair of adults after a ‘catastrophic event’ nearly drove the human race to extinction, some 200,000 years ago,

The so-called genetic barcodes or DNA snippets that result outside the nuclei of living cells seem to indicate that not only humans originate from one specific couple, but as many as nine out of ten animal species as well.

As noted in the study, ample evidence supports the theory that most species, be it a bird or a moth, or a fish, like modern humans, arose very recently and have not had enough time to develop a lot of genetic diversity.

In fact, the 0.1% average genetic diversity within humanity today corresponds to the divergence of modern humans as a distinct species about 100,000 – 200,000 years ago – not very long in evolutionary terms. Read the free article.