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"Mitochondrial Eve" is the common ancestor of all humans. |
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The idea of a common ancestor has led to the misconception that Mitochondrial Eve was the first female human, which isn't correct. Rather, she was the most recent common ancestor to whom every living person can trace their genealogy. Every human on the planet carries the Eve gene, including 147 people and fetuses from the original 1987 study. That study wasn't the first to hypothesize a common ancestor, but the researchers behind it did coin the term Mitochondrial Eve. | |
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The Bible never specifies what the forbidden fruit was. | ||||||||||||||
Though we tend to think that it was an apple eaten by Adam and Eve, the Bible never actually specifies what kind of fruit is on the tree of forbidden knowledge in the Garden of Eden. This has led to much speculation among believers, scholars, and others, with figs, grapes, pomegranates, and citrons all suggested as candidates. The apple emerged as the common consensus because its Latin name is malum, which is also the word for evil — a linguistic quirk that apparently seemed too poignant to ignore. Nothing in the original text suggests this is anything more than an etymological coincidence, but the association has stuck. | ||||||||||||||
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