Mitochondrial Eve may be older
The most up-to-date estimate of the age of Mitochondrial Eve is ~177,000 years. That paper used the mutation rate of Soares et al. (2009), which did not present a single mutation-rate, but rather a...
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The mitochondrial DNA of the first Near Eastern farmers has been sequenced for the first time. In the research, published in the journal PLOS Genetics, experts analysed samples from three sites located...
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