Rettick, if my memory serves me rightly our line of descent diverged from the apes at about 6-8 million years ago. Also, Mitochondrial Eve is calculated to have lived about 200,000 years ago.
There's such thing as a Mitochondrial Adam? Considering that Mitochondria are only found in the egg, not the sperm, I'd think the only way paternal lineage could be traced is by comparing regular DNA, rather than mitochondrial DNA.
Adding to your trivia, humans and chimpanzees are more closely related to each other than what horses and zebras are!
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