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S1rmunchalot t1_j2ckkxr wrote

Reply to comment by jayhovian in Why is Mitochondrial Eve dated to 150-170,000 years go? by jayhovian

She was the only female to pass on mitochondrial DNA, not necessarily the only female to exist at the time.

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mouse_8b t1_j2fs6yz wrote

Slight tweak to this, she was the only one whose mtDNA is still around. The other women of her generation would have also been passing on their mtDNA at the time. However, those other lines didn't make it to the present, for whatever reason.

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