Стивен Оппенгеймер, на основании работ Кивисилда (например, Kivisild 2000b) и ряда других генетиков, пришёл в своей книге «The Real Eve» (Подлинная Ева) к выводу о том, что Южная Азия могла быть местом происхождения евразийских гаплогрупп митохондриальной ДНК, которые он в совокупности называет «евразийской Евой».
 Публикации
 - 2007. Peopling of South Asia: investigating the caste-tribe continuum in India 
- 2000a. «An Indian Ancestry: a Key for Understanding Human Diversity in Europe and Beyond» 
- Mait, Metspalu; Kivisild, Toomas et al. (2004)."Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans". 
- 2005b. Reconstructing the Origin of Andaman Islanders 
- 2006a. Response to Comment on‘‘Reconstructing the Origin of Andaman Islanders’’ 
- 2003b. «The Genetic Heritage of the Earliest Settlers Persists Both in Indian Tribal and Caste Populations» , 
- 1999b. «The Place of the Indian mtDNA Variants in the Global Network of Maternal Lineages and the Peopling of the Old World» 
- 2007. Revealing the prehistoric settlement of Australia by Y chromosome and mtDNA analysis
- 2006c. The role of selection in the evolution of human mitochondrial genomes. 
- Ethiopian mtDNA heritage. 
- 2006b. Sahoo, S.; Kivisild, T et al. (2006)."A prehistory of Indian Y chromosomes: Evaluating demic diffusion scenarios".
- 2003a. «The Genetics of Language and Farming Spread in India» 
- 2005c. Tracing Modern Human Origins 
- 1999a. «Deep common ancestry of Indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages» 
- 2005a. Different population histories of the Mundari- and Mon-Khmer-speaking Austro-Asiatic tribes inferred from the mtDNA 9-bp deletion/insertion polymorphism in Indian populations 
- 2000b. «The origins of southern and western Eurasian populations: an mtDNA study» 
- The emerging limbs and twigs of the East Asian mtDNA tree.