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 g

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...