The field of genetics has made its biggest breakthrough discovery yet! We have found our most recent common ancestor.
Mitochondrial Eve wasn’t necessarily the first woman. She just happens to be the mother to all modern Homo Sapiens. She was a hunter-gatherer that lived 200,000 years ago in East Africa. She lived in the era where modern common ancestors separated from sub-human species of the time.
Scientists successfully traced our Mitochondrial DNA and our Y-chromosome DNA to Mitochondrial Eve. She is our first ancestor, and it’s hypothesized that she is the mother to all living humans.
Science still hasn’t found the father DNA, but hopefully we’ll have a breakthrough soon.
Galileo
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