Hi Bruce,
I remember the strangest experience I had when I was at my Mom's funeral in 1989. Her death was out of the blue and she was just 61, a massive heart attack, so we were all still in emotional and psychological shock. I know I certainly was. There was one point where I got this overwhelming feeling, sensations, and images in my head of an umbilical cord stretching back from me, through my Mom, and her Mom, and her mom and so on, back and back and back, and the total sensation was of the maternal genetic continuity going back generations and generations, all of us linked back through genetics ... it was the most astounding and WONDERFUL "knowing" feeling and I have never lost that sense of continuity within me, since.
Interesting terms, Genetic Adam and Genetic Eve. I've never heard those terms before.
Karmen