(12-27-2014, 04:35 AM)Isengrim Lacour Wrote: Not to be pithy, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
Not to split hairs, but the theoretical Mitochondrial Eve was not the only human woman alive at the time. Environmental pressures were just exerting a particularly harsh bottleneck effect, and it's entirely possible that children of her direct lineage mated with children of a different mother - in fact, it I'd hazard to say that would be necessary to avoid extinction-levels of gene pool loss. It just so happens that hers was the only female lineage preserved, as far as we know so far.
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