Submitted by jayhovian t3_zzflh1 in askscience
Kailaylia t1_j2faxjw wrote
Reply to comment by OlyScott in Why is Mitochondrial Eve dated to 150-170,000 years go? by jayhovian
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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