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mitochondrial Eve
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matrilineal most recent common ancestor of all living humans
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Vinony's link graph records 264 inbound references to mitochondrial Eve, and connects out to recent African origin of modern humans, matrilineality and early modern human.
Vinony files it under Events in biological evolution, Female and Genetic genealogy.
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Key facts
- Possible time of origin
- c. 100–230 kya
- Possible place of origin
- East Africa
- Ancestor
- n/a
- Descendants
- Haplogroup L0 Haplogroup L1-6
- Defining mutations
- None
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Subclass of
- most recent common ancestor
- Named after
- Eve
- Gender
- female
- Official website
- www.ebm-guidelines.com/xmedia/duo/duo95417.pdf
- Said to be same as
- Eve
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- Commons category
- Mitochondrial Eve
- opposite of
- Y-chromosomal Adam
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Encyclopedic overview
In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (more technically known as the Mitochondrial-Most Recent Common Ancestor, shortened to mt-Eve or 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.
In terms of mitochondrial haplogroups, the mt-MRCA is situated at the divergence of macro-haplogroup L into L0 and L1–6. As of 2013, estimates on the age of this split ranged at around 155,000 years ago, consistent with a date later than the speciation of Homo sapiens but earlier than the recent out-of-Africa dispersal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mitochondrial Eve” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.