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From: bryans@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (B. Charles Siegfried)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Eve/Mitrochondrial DNA
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.003300.6875@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 91 00:33:00 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.170255.19537@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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rick@hanauma.Stanford.EDU (Richard Ottolini) writes:


> Nuclear genetic material is more variable and difficult to work
> with than mitochondria genetic material,

	Wait a minute.  The mitochondria is the DNA that lacks a great
deal of proofreading ability, not the nuclear DNA.  I suppose there
are other difficulties since obviously the Eve study was completed
earlier than the Adam studies, but the malleability of the DNA certainly
isn't the reason.  Unless the Y chromosome is so unchangible that it
hasn't changed perceptibly in the last few hundred thousand years.

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Bryan Siegfried                                            zig@uiuc.edu


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