The mutation rate used is based on that of family groups with known most recent common ancestors.

So how did Eve end up being humanity's most recent common ancestor?

The most recent common ancestor appears to have evolved about 481 years ago (early 16th century).

This time period is equal to how long ago the most recent common ancestor existed.

The most recent common ancestor of all living organisms is believed to have appeared about 3.9 billion years ago.

The most recent common ancestor of the M. tuberculosis complex evolved 40,000 years ago.

The most recent common ancestor of the avian strains was placed at 6000 years ago.

Groups that do include all the descendants of the most recent common ancestor are said to be monophyletic.

If monogenesis is correct then there must be a most recent common ancestor of these languages.

These are the most recent common ancestor of all living birds and all its descendants.

Nordtvedt has proposed a new most recent common ancestor calculation method.

A crown group is a group of living species and their ancestors back to the most recent common ancestor.

Previous genetic studies have suggested 100,000 years or so for the most recent common ancestor, and about 10,000 for the ancestral population size.

In fact, whales are the closest living relatives of hippos; they evolved from a Most recent common ancestor around 54 million years ago.

Temporal remoteness of the most recent common ancestor.

However, the most recent common ancestor of extant tumors is more recent: it probably originated 200 to 2,500 years ago.

Mitochondrial Eve is defined as the woman who was the matrilineal most recent common ancestor for all living humans.

The most recent common ancestor of both the Reston and Zaire species has been estimated to be 1960.

Before that period the distinction between mono- and polyphyletic groups was based on the inclusion or exclusion of the most recent common ancestor.

Members of the Platycopiidae have a primitive form, thought to be similar to the most recent common ancestor of all copepods.

John William Friso is the most recent common ancestor of today's European monarchs.

Queen Elizabeth is the most recent common ancestor of all English monarchs that reigned after her husband.

Their most recent common ancestor with any other extant group is with the squamates (lizards and snakes).

In the generations before that of the most recent common ancestor, more and more people are common ancestors of everyone living on Earth today.

The percentage of consanguinity between any two individuals decreases fourfold as the most recent common ancestor recedes one generation.