Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!masscomp!think.com!yale!mintaka!nuhub!nic!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!BALTUCH@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU From: baltuch@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: We've got Eve. Now what about Adam? Message-ID: <00941D6D.761C8B40@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> Date: 28 Dec 90 06:40:52 GMT References: <15461@cs.utexas.edu> <0bLsVz600Vpb0ftUp_@andrew.cmu.edu> ,<1990Dec21.090558.2107@desire.wright.edu> Sender: @chaos.cs.brandeis.edu Reply-To: baltuch@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU Organization: Brandeis University Lines: 19 hi: by some sort of a coincidence, i posted a request for reliable references for the search of "eve" or "eves" using mitochondrial dna of existing humans on alt.origins (no Time magazine please!) i thought i'd try here too. in particular i'd like to know something about the methods involved and the assumptions made. two studies which were deemed newsworthy (and i've been told distortion- worthy) were the alleged african "eve" hypothesis (some years ago) and the 5 native american "eves" (this summer) if you know of any "real" references for these two cases, i'd appreciate if you could forward them to me. i don't normally read this list so could you email to baltuch@binah.cc.brandeis.edu thanks jacob ps: is "the search for eve" the name of a book? if so could you throw in a fuller reference to it? thanks