According to Reuters, science seems to have gotten the better of the Bible and its story of Adam and Eve as mankind's ancestors.
Science now tells a different tale, one based on DNA analysis.
Underhill and his colleagues have an explanation for this impossible tale. Fewer men participated in reproduction than women did. The scientists performed genetic analysis of DNA samples from the Y-chromosomes of more than 1,000 men from 22 geographic areas. From that analysis, they were able to determined that their most recent common ancestor was a man who lived in Africa around 59,000 years ago. Women seem to pass this DNA down almost unchanged from mother to daughter.