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OlyScott t1_j2f0tq9 wrote

Reply to comment by Routine-Prize-1782 in Why is Mitochondrial Eve dated to 150-170,000 years go? by jayhovian

I don't follow your reasoning to support the idea that her only daughter wouldn't be Mightochondrial Eve. Everyone in the world would be descendants of that one daughter.

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Kailaylia t1_j2faxjw wrote

You're correct. If mitochondrial Eve only had one daughter, she would not be mitochondrial Eve, her daughter wold be.

However science is not talking about an individual whom they have identified. Science is talking about a time in history when the woman from whom we inherited our mitochondria must have lived.

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