Submitted by jayhovian t3_zzflh1 in askscience
mouse_8b t1_j2fs6yz wrote
Reply to comment by S1rmunchalot in Why is Mitochondrial Eve dated to 150-170,000 years go? by jayhovian
Slight tweak to this, she was the only one whose mtDNA is still around. The other women of her generation would have also been passing on their mtDNA at the time. However, those other lines didn't make it to the present, for whatever reason.
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