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[fuagf]

oops, thanks, lx, didn't see you here
I'll look at it all and when eagle flies
his in then we'll have a nice kind of balance.

Maybe some intelligent design revision, in there.

[IxCimi]

Middle Awash region.

http://www.wissenschaft-online.de/sixcms/media.php/591/12ASI_map.jpg

Home of the Mitochondrial "Eve" 120,000 years old she represents the DNA marker that EVERY living human being has. This doesn't mean she is the common "mother of us all", but rather, the most recent form which ALL humans match genetically in the matrilinear lineage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

Not far from there is "Adam". He lived 60,000 years ago in this same region. Likewise, all male genetic lines stem from this common root ancestor.

Below is a 3.3 million years old Austropithicus afarensis female who died at age three.