jayhovian

jayhovian OP t1_j2bas9k wrote

I understand that "she" is our maternal common ancestor. But why do we place her at 150,000 years ago? What about HER mother? Or greatgreatgreat...grand mother?

What is it that makes 150,000 years the cut off for mtDNA and not, say a million years?

mtEve's mother had the same mtDNA did she not?

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