Did Real Adam Spark a Revolution in Ancient Africa?
Scientists have argued that modern humans do share common male and female ancestors who lived at different times, separated by as much as 90,000 years. One writer has pieced together a vast list of facts established through recent scientific research to build a picture of how and why humanity may have existed and expanded from about 150,000 years to ago to maybe 40,000 years ago.
Most scientists agree that modern humans probably did not leave Africa before about 60,000 years ago. This period marks the Age of Adam, says Michael Martinez, chief admin for the SF-Fandom Website. Martinez links significant changes in human culture from the Toba Event, the eruption of a super volcano about 70,000 years ago that wiped out nearly all living humans. Adam, the biological “father of humanity”, probably lived several thousand years after Toba.
Unlike the Biblical Adam, the post-Toba Adam must have had 2 or more wives or mates because science suggests that our most recent common female ancestor lived about 150,000 years ago. Despite the fact that she is called “Eve”, all we know for sure is that she was not post-Toba Adam’s wife. Martinez speculates that men from Adam’s clan may have tried to corner the market on women, forcing other men to move outward in search of mates.
This biological domino theory has surfaced elsewhere in previous discussions but the pattern remains the same. All the evidence seems to point to a polygamous society in ancient Africa that appears to have continually pushed younger, weaker males out of the core groups. Perhaps humanity had a different social history prior to the Toba Event. All we can be sure of is that our DNA analyses lead to very consistent conclusions in different spectra of current thought.
