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tion. In fact, the writers of the com - (mi to chon dri al DNA) study as gar -
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put er pro gram to cal cu late that clock bage in an ar ti cle ti tled "Statistical
di rect ed their re search to wards the Cloud over African Eden." In his ar -
re sult they wished to achieve. ti cle, Gee stat ed that when the cur -
The as sump tions they worked on rent 136 MtDNA se ries were con sid -
were claims whose ex is tence could ered, the num ber of fam i ly trees ex -
not be prov en, of which no ex am ples ceed ed 1 bil lion! In oth er words, in
had ev er been ob tained by ex per i - this study, these 1 bil lion chance
ment or ob ser va tion. Mutations, fam i ly trees were ig nored, and on ly
caused by de gen er a tion of DNA, that one tree com pat i ble with the hy -
have on ly been ob served to cause poth e sis of ev o lu tion be tween chim -
de form i ty and death in liv ing struc - pan zees and hu man be ings was se -
tures. Mutations can nev er im part lect ed.
progress by rais ing a liv ing thing to Alan Templeton, the well-known
a high er lev el. (See Mutation: An Washington University bi ol o gist,
Imaginary Mechanism.) stat ed that it was im pos si ble to set
The ev o lu tion ist re search ers de - out any date for the or i gin of man
vel oped a com put er pro gram that based on DNA se ries, be cause DNA
they hoped would cam ou flage their was high ly mixed up, even in pre-
prej u dices. They cre at ed their pro - sent hu man so ci e ties. 50
gram on the ba sis of ev o lu tion, fol - Considered in math e mat i cal
low ing the most di rect and ef fect ive terms, it means that it is im pos si ble
path. This, how e ver, is an im ag i nary to de ter mine mtDNA as be long ing
pic ture that con flicts with even the to a sin gle hu man be ing in the fam i -
ba sic as sump tions of the the o ry of ly tree.
ev o lu tion. The most sig nif i cant ad mis sion
Many sci en tists who sup port ed came from the au thors of the the sis
the the o ry of ev o lu tion agreed that them selves. Mark Stoneking, from
this the sis had no sci en tif ic val ue. the team that re peat ed the study in
Henry Gee, a mem ber of Nature 1992, said in a let ter to Science mag a -
mag a zine's ed i to ri al board, de - zine that the "African Eve" the sis
scribed the re sults of the MtDNA was un ten a ble, 51 be cause it was

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