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Additional-Fee1780 t1_j25uhba wrote

Reply to comment by Spanks79 in What is the ‘widest’ ancestral generation? by vesuvisian

Mitochondrial Eve was NOT the only living female at that time. Every other mitochondrial line ended, but they still could have had sons.

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Spanks79 t1_j25uy96 wrote

Yes, as I state in my post other DNA might still be mixed in into the lines. As the egg organelles come from eve, there might be much different dna in the chromosomes.

Same for the male thing.

Actually there’s many humans with Neanderthal and Denisova dna. Interbreeding took place and introduced different dna.

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