The Evolution of Humans from a Common Ancestor with the Chimpanzee

Does an unplanned evolution have the potential to evolve a human from a common ancestor with the chimpanzee?

·        Assume that all ancestral populations during this evolutionary event were fewer than ten billion (10¹⁰) individuals during any moment in time,

·        And that the replacement rate of all ancestors was less than one per individual per year,

·        And that the number of mutations contributed by each ancestor was fewer than one thousand (10³) heritable mutations,

·        Then the number of heritable mutations generated each year would be fewer than 10¹³ mutations.

·        Humans evolved from a common ancestor with the chimpanzee in less than ten million (10⁷) years,

·        Then, humans evolved from this common ancestor with fewer than 10²⁰ heritable mutations.

The overall probability that fewer than 10²⁰ heritable mutations or tries would generate a gene coding for a representative enzyme, cytochrome c,¹ is less than 2 chances in 10⁴⁵ or less than 1 chance in 500 million trillion trillion trillion. Fewer than 10²⁰ heritable mutations does not have the potential to reliably order a specific configuration of only 17 L-isomer biological amino acids.

          I. Ebersberger wrote, “For about 23% of our genome, we share no immediate genetic ancestry with our closest living relative, the chimpanzee.”²

An unplanned evolution does not have the potential to evolve a human from a common ancestor with the chimpanzee, and believing that it does is illogical, irrational and unscientific.

                                                                                                            Fredric P. Nelson, M.D.    © 2020

Endnotes:

1. The probability of generation is:  2 chances in 10⁶⁵ tries.

   H. P. Yockey, “A calculation of the probability of spontaneous biogenesis by information theory.”  J. Theor. Bio. 67 (1977) p. 387, and Table 1, p. 388-390.

2. Ebersberger, I. et al. 2007 Mapping human genetic ancestry. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24:2266-2276.