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According to BibleAdam and Eve were the first man and woman on Earth. They would have been made of dust and lived in the Garden of Eden. Although these accounts are only biblical, scientific evidence points out that human beings descended from .
Biblical text says that Adam and Eve were the first man and woman on Earth – (credit: Reproduction/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)
The so-called “Mitochondrial Eve” is the common female ancestor to which the DNA of all modern humans can be traced. Likewise, applying the same logic, scientists have determined that there must also be a “Y chromosome Adam,” from which the male Y chromosome in every living human originates.
In 1987, geneticists analyzed the mitochondrial DNA of 147 people around the world. By comparing the differences, the researchers were able to figure out how many mutations must have occurred since their most recent common ancestor.
The study showed that mitochondrial Eve probably lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago. While Y-chromosome Adam would have lived between 180,000 and 200,000 years ago.
The British newspaper Daily Mailhighlights that the two most recent common ancestors probably lived hundreds or thousands of years apart and perhaps never met each other. But there are some researchers who argue that there is no reason to believe that humanity does not descend from a single couple.
“All living humans descend from each of these universal ancestors. The same can be said for everyone alive in 1 AD, or everyone alive when recorded history begins. Two of them could be a specific couple, called Adam and Eve in the scriptures, from whom we all descend,” argues biologist Joshua Swamidass, from the University of Washington.
Already BibleAdam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden, which is described as being between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. This would make the Mesopotamian region a likely candidate for the location.
“This makes some sense from a textual point of view, because the biblical account not only says that the garden was “in the east,” that is, east of Israel, but also mentions the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in connection with the Garden of Eden ”, said professor Eric Cline, to the newspaper Daily Mail.
