Modern humans appeared somewhere in Africa about a quarter-million years ago (250,000) but the human with ancestors still living today is who we call the “Mitochondrial Eve.”
This is the nickname given to the most recent common ancestor of every single human alive today.
In other words, we’re all related to Mitochondrial Eve through our mothers and their mothers, and their mothers’ mothers, etc. – all of whom can be traced back to Eve.
It’s thought that "Eve" probably lived 171,285 years ago in Ethiopia! (As a matter of fact, according to DNA evidence, this woman lived in what is now Addis Ababa on the current site of the Lalibela rock Church!)
We don't have a postal code for this location since postal codes hadn't been invented yet!
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