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Re:Everyone with Blue Eyes May Descend from a Single Human A... by irrational on Saturday April 22, 2023 @10:50AM (#35667117)
For everyone alive today, it is probably even much closer in time (perhaps as recently as 2,000 years ago).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-mo...

Re:Everyone with Blue Eyes May Descend from a Single Human A... by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday April 22, 2023 @10:59AM (#35667219)
Right. Those are via different methods. "Mitochndrial eve" is via female line only - i.e. mother's mother's mother's mother etc. Similarly the Y-chromosome Adam is via male line only. If we use both sides (e.g. mother's father's mother's father), then it's much closer.