Who is the start of our family? Everyone who live has a mother, but who is the mother of all?
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Her name was Eve. Mitochondrial Eve. Amazingly we all share DNA from her. Some ascribe this to the Toba explosion and the near extinction of humanity and the consequent reduction of the gene pool to approximately 70,000 individuals. This is debatable however. If you're interested check out population bottlenecks.
On a side note Genghis Khan is said to have 15,000,000 descendants.
Eve
@Dukedog said in #5:
> On a side note Genghis Khan is said to have 15,000,000 descendants.
I think he murdered 75% of the world in cold blood
> On a side note Genghis Khan is said to have 15,000,000 descendants.
I think he murdered 75% of the world in cold blood
@ANUHAS_DHARANA_2010 said in #1:
> Who is the start of our family? Everyone who live has a mother, but who is the mother of all?
There is no "mother of all". If you walk back the line of your ancestors they will gradually change from Homo sapiens to early Homo sapiens, then to Homo erectus. At some point you will find Australopithecines, and so forth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution
BTW, me writing "at some point" is not really correct because all changes were and are gradual. So there was no Australopithecus woman that gave birth to a Homo erectus. It was much more like that there was a line of Australopithecines that gradually developed bigger brains and a less protruded face so that they looked less and less like Australopithecus - generation by generation.
> Who is the start of our family? Everyone who live has a mother, but who is the mother of all?
There is no "mother of all". If you walk back the line of your ancestors they will gradually change from Homo sapiens to early Homo sapiens, then to Homo erectus. At some point you will find Australopithecines, and so forth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution
BTW, me writing "at some point" is not really correct because all changes were and are gradual. So there was no Australopithecus woman that gave birth to a Homo erectus. It was much more like that there was a line of Australopithecines that gradually developed bigger brains and a less protruded face so that they looked less and less like Australopithecus - generation by generation.
As an addition to the linked Wikipedia article in my last comment: It lists also the timeline starting from protocells more than 4 billion years, then unicellular life for the next 2 - 3 billion years, then multicellular life starting at about 1.4 billion years ago, then what you would call the first animals about 800 million years ago, then the first chordates 540 million years ago.
These all belong to our ancestry. Every living organism on Earth that we know of dates back to a unicellular species at about 3.6 billion years that we call LUCA (last universal common ancestor). Which means that we all are related to any other living organism. We are related not only to other apes but also to cats, mice, fish, trees, fungii, even to the bacteria in our colon.
And this is meant not figuratively but literally (even if some of these relationships are *veeery* distant).
These all belong to our ancestry. Every living organism on Earth that we know of dates back to a unicellular species at about 3.6 billion years that we call LUCA (last universal common ancestor). Which means that we all are related to any other living organism. We are related not only to other apes but also to cats, mice, fish, trees, fungii, even to the bacteria in our colon.
And this is meant not figuratively but literally (even if some of these relationships are *veeery* distant).
We started as bacteria and still function quite the same after millions of years:: finding and competing for food and reproducing.
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