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reidrac on Aug 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Family trees: Tracing the world's ancestor

There's a method to estimate that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor#MRC...

"Studies have used computer modelling to estimate that the MRCA of modern humans lived between 5,000 to 2,000 years ago."

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