I know you're just blowing smoke, but you're actually making my point for me.
I'm making your point? I thought you stuck your head in a pencil sharpener!
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Eve did not have a belly button --- mtDNA Eve did.
If anything is Omphalos, it's evolution.
Neither y-Adam or mtDNA Eve necessarily had belly buttons if they came before placental mammals, they only do if they came after. If someone actually knows please post.
Regardless y-Adam and mtDNA Eve weren't the first humans, nor were they even human themselves.
Do you understand what Omphalos even means?
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Neither y-Adam or mtDNA Eve necessarily had belly buttons if they came before placental mammals, they only do if they came after. If someone actually knows please post.
Regardless y-Adam and mtDNA Eve weren't the first humans, nor were they even human themselves.
Do you understand what Omphalos even means?
That I didn't know.
If that is true, then my apologies --- I've been chasing a rabbit.
If that is true, then my apologies --- I've been chasing a rabbit.
After a little more internet research I discovered that I made a mistake. y-Adam and mtDNA Eve were direct common ancestors of all humans based on mitochondrial DNA and the y chromosome (not the first instances of mitochondria or a y chromosome as I had previously thought, that's what I get for skim reading), so yes, they did have belly buttons, sorry for that.
However, they were of ancestral species of humans, so no, still not human.
__________________ "We can easily forgive a child that is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy is when people are afraid of the light"
-Plato
After a little more internet research I discovered that I made a mistake. y-Adam and mtDNA Eve were direct common ancestors of all humans based on mitochondrial DNA and the y chromosome (not the first instances of mitochondria or a y chromosome as I had previously thought, that's what I get for skim reading), so yes, they did have belly buttons, sorry for that.
However, they were of ancestral species of humans, so no, still not human.
Obviously there are different types of evidence for an historical event and a biological event. This doesn't mean one is convincing and another is not.
What is and isn't 'convincing' can many times be very subjective.
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