Your recent ancestors would further be stunned by the notion of plump poverty.

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

Then he took his more recent ancestor in his arms.

Both studies suggest that the most recent common ancestor of the emigrants lived 60,000 to 40,000 years ago.

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

What is meant is they share a fairly recent ancestor.

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

The most recent common ancestor of the two populations apparently lived about 340,000 (194,000-489,000) years ago.