I know it is a late reply, and I wonder if anybody will ever read it, but here it goes:
Y-chromosomal Adam was likely a contemporary of mitochondrial Eva. This seems to be in conflict with the thesis. If there were fewer male ancestors, the most recent common male ancestor should be later. Which one gives, or is there, an error in this reasoning?
Do you have a reference for the claim that Y-chromosomal Adam and mitochondrial Eve lived around the same time? The only information that I could find online was a bunch of studies that found various estimated ages for mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam that all disagree wildly with each other. Most of them have error bars of at least 50,000 years.
I know it is a late reply, and I wonder if anybody will ever read it, but here it goes:
Y-chromosomal Adam was likely a contemporary of mitochondrial Eva. This seems to be in conflict with the thesis. If there were fewer male ancestors, the most recent common male ancestor should be later. Which one gives, or is there, an error in this reasoning?
Do you have a reference for the claim that Y-chromosomal Adam and mitochondrial Eve lived around the same time? The only information that I could find online was a bunch of studies that found various estimated ages for mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam that all disagree wildly with each other. Most of them have error bars of at least 50,000 years.
The Y-adam page lists this reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam#cite_note-cann-4
Maybe 50000 years later might make a difference, yes. But right now we don’t seem to have evidence either way.