Let’s look at some of the investigators conclusions:
ninety percent of all animal species alive today come from parents that all began giving birth at roughly the same time, less than 250 thousand years ago
We’re also surprisingly similar to not just every other human, but every other species.
At least for mitochondrial DNA, humans turn out to be low to average in genetic diversity.
Here’s another older paper, steeped in the language of evolution, the first one that popped up on a Google search:
Highlighting a couple of points in the abstract to demonstrate the differences between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, which would point to the nonrandom nature of “mutations” in the genome, occuring as the result of built-in structures and processes that I believe originated in the creation of each kind of being:
Average nucleotide diversity among the sequences is 1.7%, several-fold higher than estimates from restriction endonuclease site variation in mtDNA from these individuals and previously reported for other humans.
The results also revealed a significantly nonrandom distribution of nucleotide substitutions and sequence length variation. Significantly more multiple substitutions were observed than expected for these closely related sequences under the assumption of uniform rates of substitution. The bias for transitions has resulted in predominantly convergent or parallel changes among the observed multiple substitutions. There is no convincing evidence that recombination has contributed to the mtDNA sequence diversity we have observed.
Obviously not creationist sources, the authors are not lying but believe in the story they promote to justify their work in this day and age. Again, while the science is weaved into an evolutionary context, to me it is clear that creationism is far superior an explanation.
