Thanks. For those of us who follow this stuff, this is big!
One implication is that the rate of change in mitochondrial DNA is probably faster than used in in the original calculations for Eve's age. Meaning the original estimate was too far back. Which would mean we are far younger (as a species) than we thought.
Gee, does that affect another theory that we evolved from ardvarks?
I'm telling ya, people shock as to what they are willing to have fantasies on when it eliminated the Judeo Christian God. The truth is God created us all and we are all decendents of Adam and Eve.