LINK do DEBATE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdE_VscnQkw&t=14807s

Email de um dos pesquisadores do artigo refutando o João Jaquetinha:

Dear Amauri, thanks for the clarification. It is indeed difficult dealing with so-called "Creation Scientists", because nothing you can say will change their mind. They know what the right answer has to be and will bend the evidence to suit this answer. That is why Creation Science is not science, because there is no evidence that will ever persuade them that their "hypothesis" is correct. But it is still important to counter their arguments, so that people who are not so close-minded, but are wondering about the evidence, can see what scientists really think. With respect to "Mitochondrial Eve", the evidence is very strong that the ancestor of all mtDNA variation in humans today dates back to around 140,000 years ago, and comes from Africa. To claim that the mtDNA ancestor lived just 6,000 years ago cannot be supported by any reasonable interpretation of mutation rates. Moreover, we have mtDNA genomes from fossils directly dated to well over 6,000 years ago that fall within the range of modern human mtDNA variation, further indicating that the ancestor was much older than 6,000 years ago. And to claim that she was the first woman is an erroneous interpretation of the genetic evidence; she had ancestors, and she was a member of a population of other people; it's just that these other people did not leave their mtDNA to future generations (but they may very well have left other genes). This is all very familiar, and well-explained by several articles in the popular press, e.g. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-mitochondrial-eve-not-first-female-species-180959593/ https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/female-ancestor.htm https://geneticsunzipped.com/transcripts/2023/01/26/eve-mitochondrial-dna

I hope this helps, good luck with your efforts. Best,

Mark Stoneking

On 28/06/2024 18:19, Amaurí *****

Mark Stoneking

Artigos citados mostrados:How Rapidly Does the Human Mitochondrial Genome Evolve?https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1914922/

A high observed substitution rate in the human mitochondrial DNA control regionhttps://www.nature.com/articles/ng0497-363

Mitochondrial Eve: the plot thickenshttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21238138/

Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clockhttps://www.dnai.org/teacherguide/pdf/reference_romanovs.pdf