Discovery of the "Mitochrondrial Eve"
Discovery of the "Mitochrondrial Eve"
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-migration-history-of-humans
This article, albeit a long one, goes into detail to describe how Rebecca L. Cann and Allan C. Wilson of the University of California, Berkeley reported that humans from different populations all descended from a single female in Africa who lived about 200,000 years ago. Despite the Biblical allusion, this Eve was not the first woman: her lineage, though, is all that has survived.
The genetic network of mankind may have began with only several women, and from that produced 6 billion people. Degrees of separation may now also apply to genetics: How many edges are there between your DNA and your best friend's DNA? The number may be exponentially smaller than you think.
This article, albeit a long one, goes into detail to describe how Rebecca L. Cann and Allan C. Wilson of the University of California, Berkeley reported that humans from different populations all descended from a single female in Africa who lived about 200,000 years ago. Despite the Biblical allusion, this Eve was not the first woman: her lineage, though, is all that has survived.
The genetic network of mankind may have began with only several women, and from that produced 6 billion people. Degrees of separation may now also apply to genetics: How many edges are there between your DNA and your best friend's DNA? The number may be exponentially smaller than you think.
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