But boffs have found evidence that humans perhaps did descend from a single set of ancestors, just like the pair who feature in the Book of Genesis. The idea that mankind was spawned from one pair of ...

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Why is there a Jewish practice to bury prayer books and other texts that contain God's name? A rabbi offers the mystical answer.