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From: daver@sci.UUCP (Dave Rickel)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Universal Common Female Ancestor
Message-ID: <10314@sci.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 19:30:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 19:30:49 1987
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Summary: Eve, Australian Bushmen
Xref: mnetor sci.misc:573 sci.bio:762


So, has anyone compared the mitochondria of caucasians with australian
bushmen?  As i remember, the rest of the human race diverged from the
bushmen before the common ancestress.  Scale of events according to one
article i have handy--split from the bushmen, about 400,000 years ago,
orientals split off about 100,000 years ago, blacks and whites, 40,000
years ago.  Hmm.  This article goes on to say that "Eve" lived about
300,000 years ago--a little after the split with the bushmen.  It doesn't
say anything about whether or not the bushmen mitochondria show the same
lack of diversity as the rest of mankind's.


david rickel
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