Re: 2²·5 Questions: Game 5·47
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:55 pm
And then there was that one guess that was about 3,000,000 years off.Wattsthematter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:47 pmThat is HILARIOUS how we were incrementally trying to break down the birth date… and we were still about 200,000 years offHominidae wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:16 pmCorrect! She is definitely of global significance.
I hesitated with this choice because technically the identity of Mitochondrial Eve can change over time as groups die out, but I don't think an entire haplogroup has gone extinct in recent memory, so she's at least been consistently the same person since the concept was introduced in the 1980s.