Tracing very long-term kinship networks using SOCSIM

“…While each individual has 10 billion ancestors a thousand years ago, these are not distinct and in practice, the number of distinct ancestors is much smaller. A female ('mitochondrial Eve') and a male ancestor ('Y-chromosome Adam') of all humans certainly existed, possibly about 100,000 years ago, and a most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all humans existed much more recently. …”
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The first modern human dispersals across Africa. by Teresa Rito, Martin B Richards, Verónica Fernandes, Farida Alshamali, Viktor Cerny, Luísa Pereira, Pedro Soares

“…We propose that the last common ancestor of modern human mtDNAs (carried by "mitochondrial Eve") possibly arose in central Africa ~180 ka, at a time of low population size. …”
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African mitochondrial haplogroup L7: a 100,000-year-old maternal human lineage discovered through reassessment and new sequencing by Paul A. Maier, Göran Runfeldt, Roberta J. Estes, Miguel G. Vilar

“…In contrast, global human mitochondrial (mtDNA) diversity coalesces to one African female ancestor (“Mitochondrial Eve”) some 145 thousand years ago, owing to the ¼ gene pool size of our matrilineally inherited haploid genome. …”
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Molecular Anthropology / by Frick, Joye, author 648806

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