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by jjjbokma 2074 days ago
Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam lived not in the same period of time.
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noncoml 2074 days ago
Does it matter? I mean it’s still close enough for such a prediction so long back.

What I am saying is that, like with the “atoms”, the intuition was there. They just didn’t have the means to prove stuff

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hhas01 2073 days ago
People predicted lots of things. You can’t look back and say “oh, they predicted X right” while conveniently ignoring all the other ways they predicted it wrong.

See also: Post hoc ergo propter hoc and Texas sharpshooter fallacies.

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noncoml 2073 days ago
Why can't the same argument be hold for Pre-Socratic philosophers and the "atom"?
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