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Evidence for a single Eve
04/24/08
Catholics are free to believe in evolution and a billions year-old Earth provided that they believe, among other things (here), that there was an actual Adam and Eve.
This interesting article says that evidence does indeed exist for a "mitochondrial Eve:"
Studies using mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down through mothers, have traced modern humans to a single "mitochondrial Eve," who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago.
From the looks of Eve, this wasn't her first apple.
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