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Just for full clarity, from wikipedia:And we have, since science relizied, by the study of mitochondrial DNA all current human being alive are direct discendants of the same female exemplar of hominide. And i don't mean the same specie. I mean the very same person.
Of course albeith this individual have been called 'the Mitochondrial Eve' this has nothing to do with the biblical Eve, not to mention any Adam.
"The name "Mitochondrial Eve" alludes to the biblical Eve, which has led to repeated misrepresentations or misconceptions in journalistic accounts on the topic. Popular science presentations of the topic usually point out such possible misconceptions by emphasizing the fact that the position of mt-MRCA is neither fixed in time (as the position of mt-MRCA moves forward in time as mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages become extinct), nor does it refer to a "first woman", nor the only living female of her time, nor the first member of a "new species"."
"Other women living during Eve's time may have descendants alive today but not in a direct female line. "
In case someone goes wild with assumptions or religious projections lol
It's fun to imagine a whole future civilization descended from Zetan & Zahra, though