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February 14, 2013 04:41 pm PST
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Getting to know "Mitochondrial Eve"
By studying the way it has mutated and changed over time, scientists can trace human mitochondrial DNA — the DNA that is passed from mother to daughter — back to a single woman. Basically, everybody alive is descended from her. But that's not the same thing as saying that Mitochondrial Eve was once the only [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oKnDzalnbBk/getting-to-know-mitochondria.html
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