- You might want to check the accuracy of this statement. I read several years ago that researchers had traced the entire homo sapiens gene pool back to one woman (they referred to her as Eve) who was born millennia ago somewhere in Africa. The research in this area is very interesting but gets highly technical very quickly. Try Google using “DNA, Eve” as the search parameters if you want to learn more of the background to all these findings.
I'm familiar with the African 'Eve.' Europeans are descended from only eight females who can trace their 'roots' to the African Eve many thousands of years prior.
"Sykes claims there are seven major mitochondrial lineages for modern Europeans but others put the number at 10-12. These additional "daughters" generally include haplogroups I, M and W[1]. A recent paper re-mapped European haplogroups as H, J, K, N1, T, U4, U5, V, X and W.[2] Likewise, Sykes has invented names for an additional 29 "clan mothers" worldwide, each corresponding to a different haplogroup identified by geneticists: "Fufei, Ina, Aiyana/Ai, Yumi, Nene, Naomi, Una, Uta, Ulrike, Uma, Ulla, Ulaana, Lara, Lamia, Lalamika, Latasha, Malaxshmi, Emiko, Gaia, Chochmingwu/Chie, Djigonasee/Sachi, Makeda, Lingaire, Lubaya, Limber, Lila, Lungile, Latifa and Layla."[3]"
In Sykes' latest book Celts, Saxons And Vikings, he admits that he should have had Eight daughters of Eve.
My male ancestors left Africa, crossed through the Middle-East on into Pakistan and China then crossed into Russia and then turned south on into Western Europe. They migrated out of the Franco-Iberian refuge at the end of the last Ice Age. After the LGM (Last Glacial Maximum), they migrated back north and are the Western Europeans of today.