Two Thumbs
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Oh.. you mean she wasn't Eve?
No she wasn't.
Mitochondrial Eve is generally estimated to have lived around 200,000 years ago,[2] most likely in East Africa,[3] when Homo sapiens sapiens ("anatomically modern humans") were developing as a population distinct from other human sub-species.
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Incidently, before we Christians take too much heart in the fact that we all share the same Great (to the nth degree) GrandMOTHER, know that the same genetic studies indicate that our protogenitor EYE never met our protogenitor ADAM
The most recent ancestor of all males living today was a man who lived in Africa around 59,000 years ago, according to an international team of researchers.
But the finding raises new questions, not least because our most recent paternal ancestor would have been about 84,000 years younger than our maternal one.
So all modern humans apparently DO share common a Grand (to the nth power)Mother AND GRAND FATHER, but apparently those two univsersally shared ancestors of ours were never formally introduced.
DNA is some fun stuff.
Funny how it gives creadance to the Adam and Eve myth.