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For everyone alive today, it is probably even much closer in time (perhaps as recently as 2,000 years ago). https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-a
by irrational 4y ago
For everyone alive today, it is probably even much closer in time (perhaps as recently as 2,000 years ago).
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-more-closely-related-than-we-commonly-think/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-mo...
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoRight. Those are via different methods. "Mitochndrial eve" is via female line only - i.e. mother's mother's mother's mother etc. Similarly the Y-chromosome Adam is via male line only. If we use both sides (e.g. mother's father's mother's father), then it's much closer.