"New genetic studies confirm the existence of a “Y-Chromosome Adam” and “Mitochondrial Eve” but, contrary to earlier analyses, place them in the same time frame.
When science journals mention Adam and Eve, they are not thinking along Biblical lines. What they mean is that gene comparisons allow inferences about ancestry that lead to single individuals as parents of all living humans. Careful to distance his thoughts from Genesis, Ewen Callaway writing in Nature (“Genetic Adam and Eve did not live too far apart in time”) explains:
When science journals mention Adam and Eve, they are not thinking along Biblical lines. What they mean is that gene comparisons allow inferences about ancestry that lead to single individuals as parents of all living humans. Careful to distance his thoughts from Genesis, Ewen Callaway writing in Nature (“Genetic Adam and Eve did not live too far apart in time”) explains:
The Book of Genesis puts Adam and Eve together in the Garden of Eden, but geneticists’ version of the duo — the ancestors to whom the Y chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA of today’s humans can be traced — were thought to have lived tens of thousands of years apart. Now, two major studies of modern humans’ Y chromosomes suggest that ‘Y-chromosome Adam’ and ‘mitochondrial Eve’ may have lived around the same time after all.
The new analyses are based on genetic comparisons performed by Francalacci et al. on 1,204 Sardinian men and by Poznik et al. who studied genes from 69 miles in 9 distant populations. Our findings suggest that, contrary to previous claims, male lineages do not coalesce significantly more recently than female lineages. Previous claims had put mitochondrial Eve as much as 3 times farther back than Y-chromosome Adam." CEH
And Adam called his wife's name Eve;
because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:20
