The so-called 'Mitochondrial Eve' is the common female ancestor to which the DNA of all modern human beings can be traced. This common ancestor exists because, no matter how big your initial ...

For His `Mitochondrial Eve' Research Allan C. Wilson, who used DNA to trace the origin of modern humans to a woman living 200,000 years ago, has received the 1991 3M Life Sciences Award, presented by ...

humans who lived elsewhere in the world at the time of mitochondrial Eve were completely replaced ... by recent studies using more sensitive DNA markers (Templeton, 1997). Clearly, far more ...

Additionally, more than two-thirds of these relatives shared a rare mitochondrial DNA lineage — U5b1 — and Y chromosome diversity was high, meaning most people had the same maternal ancestors ...

What happens to your cells when this DNA mutates? Similar to the nuclear genome, the mitochondrial genome is built of double-stranded DNA, and it encodes genes (Figure 2). However, the ...