Mitochondrial Eve

Published: Feb. 21, 2021, 11 a.m.

On January 1, 1987, a paper was published in the journal Nature which rocked the world of anthropology. 

Researchers Allan Wilson, Mark Stoneking, and Rebecca Cann used the then-new science of genetic analysis to analyze the DNA in human mitochondria. 

What they found was evidence that humans on Earth can trace their ancestry back to a single woman who lived approximately 180,000 years ago.

Learn more about Mitochondrial Eve, the mother of everyone, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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