10 Facts About Mitochondrial Eve

In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor of all living humans.

Male analog to the "Mitochondrial Eve" is the "Y-chromosomal Adam", the individual from whom all living humans are patrilineally descended.

Mitochondrial clade which Mitochondrial Eve defines is the species Homo sapiens sapiens itself, or at least the current population or "chronospecies" as it exists today.

Mitochondrial Eve is the most recent common matrilineal ancestor for all modern humans.

The Seven Daughters of Eve presented the topic of human mitochondrial genetics to a general audience.

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One common misconception surrounding Mitochondrial Eve is that since all women alive today descended in a direct unbroken female line from her, she must have been the only woman alive at the time.

Definition of Mitochondrial Eve is fixed, but the woman in prehistory who fits this definition can change.

That is, not only can our knowledge of when and where Mitochondrial Eve lived change due to new discoveries, but the actual Mitochondrial Eve can change.

Sometimes Mitochondrial Eve is assumed to have lived at the same time as Y-chromosomal Adam, and perhaps even met and mated with him.

Mitochondrial Eve is the most recent common matrilineal ancestor, not the most recent common ancestor.