{"id":36211,"date":"2015-04-20T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T17:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=36211"},"modified":"2015-10-12T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:44:18","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-how-old-is-mothers-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-how-old-is-mothers-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: How old is Mother Eve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/personalized-family-roots-platter?source=blog_UK_MothersEve\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36330 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/22146-family-roots-platter.jpg\" alt=\"Family Roots Platter | UncommonGoods\" width=\"530\" height=\"530\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of the world\u2019s religions have stories about the first woman, from whom all of us have descended. Well, now science has its own version of the story\u2014they have calculated the existence of a single, female ancestor shared by all living humans. They did this by looking at mitochondrial DNA, which\u2014unlike regular DNA, which is a combination of genes from both parents\u2014is derived solely from the mother. Because of this consistency from generation to generation, the mutations that naturally occur this DNA over time can be tracked, allowing researchers to create a timeline of the molecule\u2019s history. With this data, and applying a variety of mathematical models, scientists estimate that this mother of us all probably lived 200,000 years ago. However, unlike most origin-of-mankind stories, those scientists aren\u2019t actually suggesting that their Eve was actually the first woman\u2014just that she is the only one whose descendants are still living today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/personalized-family-roots-platter?source=blog_UK_MothersEve\" target=\"_blank\">Personalized Family Roots Platter, $115 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s ask science!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":36212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40626,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211\/revisions\/40626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}