Mitochondrial Eve - Common Misconceptions - Not A Contemporary of "Adam"

Not A Contemporary of "Adam"

Sometimes mitochondrial Eve is assumed to have lived at the same time as Y-chromosomal Adam, perhaps even meeting and mating with him. Like mitochondrial "Eve", Y-chromosomal "Adam" probably lived in Africa; however, this "Eve" lived much earlier than this "Adam" – perhaps even some 50,000 to 80,000 years earlier. though recent studies have suggested that the difference may be less than previously thought.

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