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Subject: Re: One female ancestor
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Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 18:25:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 10 18:25:37 1983
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Even taken as it stands, the discovery doesn't suprise me very much.
At some time in the not too distant past homo sapiens emerged as a 
new species.  There must have been just a couple of breeding females
or so at one point.  So it seems to be that if there were a great deal
of variation among our mitochondria that that would be harder to explain,
given that mitochondria are almost totally separate organisms, whose
reproduction and replication mechanisms are rarely interfered with by 'our'
DNA mechanisms.

I would be interested in seeing a real reference.  We will get it eventually
(my group here collects all papers concerning DNA and all the journals)
but I would like to know exactly what to ask the biologist-types here to
look for.

b2   Bryan Bingham	ucbvax!lbl-csam!lanl-a!bb  Los Alamos National Lab