We are all cousins, says a geneticist

A respected geneticist, on a TV program recently, says that his research indicates that we are all cousins.

He was looking for the Biblical Adam, and by checking the characteristics of 'Y' chromosomes of many individuals from various parts of the world, he has found a common feature in them which indicates that we are all descended from a common ancestor who lived about 60,000 years ago.

This would have been around the time that some catastrophic event killed off many species, including most humans, and it has been estimated that there may have been as few as only a couple of thousand humans who survived all that. One of those apparently was the parent of all future generations. He didn't look like those famous paintings either, and he lived most likely in East Africa, according to the experts.

So not only are we all related, but we've increased in numbers from a couple of thousand about 60,000 years ago to our current 6 billion plus, and we probably aren't getting along with each other as well now as we did back then, when our very survival depended on it. Come to think of it, our survival still depends on it, doesn't it?