Biochemists from the University of California at Berkeley think a single female living 200,000 years ago was an ancestor of everyone on Earth today. The scientists believe descendants of the other females alive during Eve's time eventually produced no children or only males, thus halting transmission of their mtDNA. ''after more than 450 yeats of deterioration, the image of the lady is barely a soiled caricature of the original,'
Biochemists from the University of California at Berkeley think a single female living 200,000 years ago was an ancestor of everyone on Earth today. The scientists believe descendants of the other females alive during Eve's time eventually produced no children or only males, thus halting transmission of their mtDNA. ''after more than 450 yeats of deterioration, the image of the lady is barely a soiled caricature of the original,'
Biochemists from the University of California at Berkeley think a single female living 200,000 years ago was an ancestor of everyone on Earth today. The scientists believe descendants of the other females alive during Eve's time eventually produced no children or only males, thus halting transmission of their mtDNA. ''after more than 450 yeats of deterioration, the image of the lady is barely a soiled caricature of the original,'