(April 9, 2017 at 5:28 am)SamWatson Wrote: the Mitochondrial Eve is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor of all currently living humans, her age is between 99 and 148 thousand years ago (Wkipedia).
First monkey lived 29 million years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey
Why do we have in the genes no mitochondria of the first monkey?
I didn't know there are mitochondria in the genes. I'm no biologist or geneticist, but perhaps the question needs some rephrasing?