Many Adams and Eves vs one

[rdscheirer]

Scientific studies have shown that everyone alive today has the same mitochondrial DNA as everyone else. Mitochondrial DNA is only inherited from the female. The mitochondrian is the " power plant of the cell". Therefore if everyone has the DNA of one ancestor who is female this would have to be “Eve”.

 

[dmar198]

Scientific studies have shown that everyone alive today has the same mitochondrial DNA as everyone else. Mitochondrial DNA is only inherited from the female. The mitochondrian is the " power plant of the cell".

Sure. Our DNA is all connected by a common ancestry.

Therefore if everyone has the DNA of one ancestor who is female this would have to be “Eve”.

That conclusion doesn’t follow. You and your maternal cousins all share the DNA of a common grandmother, and yet your fathers all came from different places. The presence of common, “matriarchal” DNA in everyone does not imply that the woman who originated that DNA was the first human woman, nor does it imply that her husband and she produced all living people. Her daughters very likely mated with other men from other tribes (assuming they existed), and their ancestors with others, and so on, until her DNA was so widespread. But that does not imply monogeneticism (the idea that a single pair produced all humans).

We should desire to prove monogeneticism…but this is not the proof we are looking for.