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I don't think anyone seriously working in the molecular biology field believes in Adam and Eve, at least not in the strict 6000 years ago, created by god -fashi

I don't think anyone seriously working in the molecular biology field believes in Adam and Eve, at least not in the strict 6000 years ago, created by god -fashion. The fictional family relations portrayed in the bible can hardly be called "family trees", right? If you do think this is valid and being written down in an old book is enough for the claim of oldest family tree, there are probably older ones, perhaps in hieroglyphs in the pyramid? Idk, I'm not an expert.

adolph 5y ago
In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (also mt-Eve, mt-MRCA) is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all living humans. In other words, she is defined as the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line purely through their mothers and through the mothers of those mothers, back until all lines converge on one woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
- teekert 5y ago
  Western scientists call her Eve because of our culture’s Judeo-Christian (or Abrahamic?) roots. We could have also called her “Ask” if we were Norse mythology inclined. But I’m just trying to sound intelligent here while I should be working on something boring, I’m not even sure if OP was serious :)
  - richardfontana 5y ago
    "Ask" is the first male human in Norse mythology, and Embla the first female human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_and_Embla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_and_Embla
  - adolph 5y ago
    My first thought was to write that “Conceptually Mitocondrial Eve stood at the eve of humanity.” But that isn’t quite right. MEve was the earliest human whose genetic progeny wasn’t wiped out at some later point. Not the first person, the chicken that came before an egg but a person who won a genetic lottery unknown to them. Explainer: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-mitochondrial-eve-not-first-female-species-180959593/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-mitochondri...

adolph 5y ago

In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (also mt-Eve, mt-MRCA) is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all living humans. In other words, she is defined as the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line purely through their mothers and through the mothers of those mothers, back until all lines converge on one woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

teekert 5y ago
Western scientists call her Eve because of our culture’s Judeo-Christian (or Abrahamic?) roots. We could have also called her “Ask” if we were Norse mythology inclined. But I’m just trying to sound intelligent here while I should be working on something boring, I’m not even sure if OP was serious :)
- richardfontana 5y ago
  "Ask" is the first male human in Norse mythology, and Embla the first female human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_and_Embla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_and_Embla
- adolph 5y ago
  My first thought was to write that “Conceptually Mitocondrial Eve stood at the eve of humanity.” But that isn’t quite right. MEve was the earliest human whose genetic progeny wasn’t wiped out at some later point. Not the first person, the chicken that came before an egg but a person who won a genetic lottery unknown to them. Explainer: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-mitochondrial-eve-not-first-female-species-180959593/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-mitochondri...