Editing Mitochondrial Eve (section)

===1987 publication===

By 1985, data from the mtDNA of 145 women of different populations, and of two [[cell lines]], [[HeLa]] and GM 3043, derived from an African American and a [[ǃKung people|ǃKung]] respectively, were available. After more than 40 revisions of the draft, the manuscript was submitted to [[Nature (journal)|''Nature'']] in late 1985 or early 1986<ref name="git">{{cite journal |vauthors=Cann R |title=All about mitochondrial eve: an interview with Rebecca Cann. Interview by Jane Gitschier |journal=PLOS Genetics |volume=6 |issue=5 |pages=e1000959 |date=May 2010 |pmid=20523888 |pmc=2877732 |doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1000959 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and published on 1 January 1987. The published conclusion was that all current human mtDNA originated from a single population from Africa, at the time dated to between 140,000 and 200,000 years ago.<ref name="pmid3025745">{{cite journal |vauthors=Cann RL, Stoneking M, Wilson AC |title=Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution |journal=Nature |volume=325 |issue=6099 |pages=31–36 |year=1987 |pmid=3025745 |doi=10.1038/325031a0 |s2cid=4285418 |bibcode=1987Natur.325...31C }}</ref>

The dating for "Eve" was a blow to the [[multiregional hypothesis]], which was debated at the time, and a boost to the theory of the [[recent African origin of modern humans|recent origin model]].<ref name="pmid1840702">{{cite journal |vauthors=Vigilant L, Stoneking M, Harpending H, Hawkes K, Wilson AC |title=African populations and the evolution of human mitochondrial DNA |journal=Science |volume=253 |issue=5027 |pages=1503–1507 |date=September 1991 |pmid=1840702 |doi=10.1126/science.1840702 |bibcode=1991Sci...253.1503V }}</ref>

Cann, Stoneking and Wilson did not use the term "Mitochondrial Eve" or even the name "Eve" in their original paper. It is however used by Cann in an article entitled "In Search of Eve" in the September–October 1987 issue of ''The Sciences''.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Cann RL |year=1987 |title=In Search of Eve |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.2326-1951.1987.tb02967.x |journal=The Sciences |volume=27 |issue=5 |pages=30–37 |doi=10.1002/j.2326-1951.1987.tb02967.x}}</ref> It appears in the October 1987 article in [[science (journal)|''Science'']] by [[Roger Lewin]], headlined "The Unmasking of Mitochondrial Eve".<ref name=lew>{{cite journal |vauthors=Lewin R |title=The unmasking of mitochondrial Eve |journal=Science |volume=238 |issue=4823 |pages=24–26 |date=October 1987 |pmid=3116666 |doi=10.1126/science.3116666 |bibcode=1987Sci...238...24L }}</ref> The biblical connotation was very clear from the start. The accompanying research news in ''Nature'' had the title "Out of the garden of Eden".<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Wainscoat J |title=Human evolution. Out of the garden of Eden |journal=Nature |volume=325 |issue=6099 |pages=13 |year=1987 |pmid=3796736 |doi=10.1038/325013a0 |s2cid=13187170 |bibcode=1987Natur.325...13W |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Wilson himself preferred the term "Lucky Mother"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-scientists-behind-mitochondrial-eve-tell-us-about-t-5879991 |vauthors=Wilkins A |date=27 January 2012 |title=The scientists behind Mitochondrial Eve tell us about the 'lucky mother' who changed human evolution forever |work=Gizmodo |access-date=23 December 2019}}</ref> and thought the use of the name Eve "regrettable".<ref name=lew/><ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Cann RL |year=1997 |chapter=Chapter 4: Mothers, Labels, and Misogyny |title=Women in Human Evolution |editor=Hager LD |publisher=Routledge |location=London |pages=75–89 |isbn=9780415108331}}</ref> But the concept of Eve caught on with the public and was repeated in a ''[[Newsweek]]'' cover story (11 January 1988 issue featured a depiction of Adam and Eve on the cover, with the title "The Search for Adam and Eve"),<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Tierney J |year=1992 |title=The Search for Adam and Eve|url=http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20(spring%2001)/articles/tierney.html |work=Newsweek |publisher=Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies |via=Internet Archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320110036/http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20(spring%2001)/articles/tierney.html |access-date=21 July 2019|archive-date=20 March 2015 }}</ref> and a cover story in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' on 26 January 1987.<ref>{{cite magazine|vauthors=Lemonick MD |date=26 January 1987|title=Everyone's Genealogical Mother|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963320,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923010301/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963320,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 September 2008 |magazine=Time |access-date=13 May 2013}}</ref>