Why Every Human on Earth Is Descended From the Same Woman

Somewhere in Africa, around 150,000 years ago, a woman gave birth to a daughter — and every single human alive today shares an unbroken biological line back to her. Scientists call her "Mitochondrial Eve," but almost everything you've heard about her is wrong. She wasn't the first woman. She wasn't alone. She's simply the last unbroken thread in a chain where billions of other lines quietly went extinct. In this video, we break down the 1987 study that discovered her, why "Mitochondrial Eve" isn't a fixed person but a moving point in time, why "Y-chromosome Adam" was never her partner, and what it actually means that you are the current endpoint of a 150,000-year-old unbroken line. #MitochondrialEve #HumanEvolution #Genetics #ScienceFacts #Anthropology Tags: mitochondrial eve, human evolution, genetics explained, where did humans come from, y chromosome adam, human ancestry, evolutionary biology, science facts, dna explained, origin of humans