Genetic 'Adam' and 'Eve'?

[WhoTheLoL]

One thing that is missing from this explanation that creationists don't understand is that being able to trace critical mutations in any species' genome to a single ancestor is a totally normal thing. The mitochondrial Eve and Y-Adam are simply two of many genes which we would be able to track to some singular past ancestor. The only reason they are mentioned more often is because, due to their placement, they can be traced to a specifically female/male ancestor.

[bowantoia]

I'm 60 and I want you as my teacher. Your enthusiasm is like a virus, infectious.

[zedmeinhardt]

Scientists always being clever and poetic and just giving religious people blank ammo to annoy the rest of us...

[chappieX]

Are we just going to brush over the fact that Forrest is wearing a suit?!

[GRAHFXENO]

Scientists: "We shall call it The God Particle"

Theists: "AHA!!!"

Scientists: "Oh, stop it"

[Nanamowa]

Tracing the most recent common ancestor of any group does not mean the oldest ancestor either, it in fact means the youngest of all common ancestors for a group. It's actually completely different from Adam and Eve.

[reidmckim]

This concept is also used for a ps1 game called Parasite Eve

[naomielewis]

If you were my biology teacher I would have been able to understand the material

[lxUnc]

Also an important thing to note: mitochondrial Eve was not the first woman. She was the LAST woman whose DNA is found in everyone alive today.

[bazookallamaproductions]

always fun realizing how much your parents lied about.

santa, the easter bunny, Christopher Columbus, jesus, the tooth fairy, meritocracy, american exceptionalism, etc

[EstebanGrasso]

A small update: recently it has been proved that mitochondria form the spermatozoid can (and does) get into the oocyte, in both natural conceptions and in vitro ones. However how and why it disappears during the embryogenesis is still unknown.

[ShiKageMaru]

Scientists seriously need to say to themselves "how will the most ignorant people misinterpret this by accident, or the most malicious perspn misinterpret it on purpose" before giving nicknames to stuff.

[ReinaVaste]

This is especially helpful. My parents are both religious, but — bless them — they know that sometimes those among them in the religion often don't know what they're talking about or straight up lie for their beliefs (as I've had to correct their compatriots' lies/errors in the past), and I had the displeasure of having to correct one such lie recently from one of their fellow believers who tried to say that because calculations for most recent common ancestor of all humans alive today dates to about 5000 years in the past that that somehow proved the flood. So I had to unpack that and explain how that calculation is complicated by migration, and since there are populations that we know have been until very recently in history completely isolated — certainly since before 5000 years ago — that that recent of a common ancestor really can't be representative of anything since if you recalculated based on populations pre-colonialism that would project your most recent common ancestor further back in the past, and that a better way to do it would be to trace back to the so-called "Mitochondrial Eve" and "Y-Chromosome Adam" along the lines of our egg- and sperm-donor parents respectively and that that ends up spitting out a date of over 100k years ago. That said, that's where the extent of my knowledge as a former student of anthropology kind of ends, so it would be wonderful to see a longer video on that topic in specific.

[Beepbeep]

I don’t really comment on social media but I NEED to let you know that you are an excellent science communicator. I just started watching your light of evolution series and I really enjoy it!! Your enthusiasm makes intimidating content fun and even comforting(?) in a way. I’m not a native English speaker but your content is still very accessible to me. I used to love science as a kid but a lot of cramming in school really burned me out. I’m kind of a slow learner and fast paced lesson is hard to catch up with and makes me feel stupid. I don’t know how to explain this but your video does not make me feel that way at all. It makes me feel genuine curiosity to learn more about science again. Thank you Forrest, keep up the good work!

[whatabouttheearth]

Secondly where they place Mtdna "EVE" (the apx beginning of the mtDNA haplogroups) is on the border of Ethiopia and Kenya, and where they place Ydna "ADAM" (the apx beginning of the YDNA haplogroups) is in central Kenya, so yeah. So I guess not only is it that what we know of the origins of the modern Homo sapien haplogroups for mtDNA and Ydna are temporally separated, they are also geographically separated I guess? Or at least as what we are approximating currently?

That being said, there are many interesting hypotheses (simply interesting stuff) related to the Ancient Egyptians considering the nation of Punt (on the horn of Africa) considering Punt to be the land of the ancestors/gods, and also the name of the Gulf of Aden (as related to the word Eden as a regional variant) which are interesting, not in a theological way, but in the sense that in reality, before writing, humans codified histories in stories. The question would be when did Homo sapiens develop language and story complicated enough to be allegorical? And did Home sapiens codify our geographical history before the several primary migrations away from that region, the same region that scientists today say that modern Homo sapiens derived from?

[LoversAnonymousMusic]

I'm writing a musical about this basically calling it adam and eve but its based on 2 people that never meet but they're the connecting point for all of human history. It would flash between modern day of a guy telling his kid a bedtime story and these 2 characters who are in different parts of the world and different times in history.

[Oranni]

The astonishing concept that all of your children can be traced back to you even though you also had parents.

Mutations/other genetic events had to start somewhere and rapid disasters can do a great job of killing early variants before they proliferate.

[dimitraBlissDk]

I told my aunt I was agnostic and that evolution is brilliant. Then she said "you really believe people came from monkeys". Ugh

[zonaut]

Can you do a more detailed video about this topic?

[GRDwashere]

Yes, Y-chromosome Adam and mitochondrial Eve were 100, 000 years apart until that fateful summer when Eve rented a lakehouse and left a note in its letterbox asking the next tennant to forward her mail which Adam found two years later as he started renovating the