Scientific Disputes
Brown characterized the cycle of Venus as "trac a perfect pentagram across the ecliptic sky every four years". This was corrected to "eight years" in some later editions, such as the British paperback and at last the April 2003 printing of the US hardback.
Steve Olson, author of Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins, writing in an article in Nature, says that the notion that a small number of people living today could be the only descendants from any particular person who lived millennia ago, such as Jesus and Mary, is statistically flawed. According to Olson, "If anyone living today is descended from Jesus, so are most of us on the planet."
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