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From: jyamato@cory.Berkeley.EDU (YAMATO JON AYAO)
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Subject: Re: Human Evolution
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Date: 3 Sep 88 02:59:09 GMT
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In article <597@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) writes:
>In article <450@mrecvax.UUCP> daniela@dcfcen.edu.ar (Daniela Tosto) writes:
>>I'm interested in human evolution research

>Check out this reference, it's amazing:
>R. L. Cann, M. Stoneking, and A. C. Wilson,
>Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution,
>Nature 325:31-36, 1987
 
>Tom

Also check out the controversy it generated, however--Wilson lab tends
to get a wee bit dogmatic about its findings, and you'll get a better
view of the situation if you read other people's contibutions too.

Summaries of this work in the popular press, where it is usually
referred to as "the Eve discovery", are pretty uniformly misleading.
It is worth pointing out that the discovery is of a common ancestor
for human mitochondrial DNA, not for human genes in general.  Evidence
is becoming available that several of the Human Leukocyte Antigen
alleles predate humankind, and that therefore there have always been
at least several humans in the line of descent for nuclear genes.

Mary Kuhner