According to the experts in human evolutionary genetics, Mitochondrial eve is the matrilineal, most recent common ancestor of modern humans! To you and me, this simply means that Mitochondrial Eve is our great, great, great, greatest, even greater than that, grandmother.
Where Do We Come From? An investigation into the origin of the modern human.
Saturday
Mitochondrial Eve?!
According to the experts in human evolutionary genetics, Mitochondrial eve is the matrilineal, most recent common ancestor of modern humans! To you and me, this simply means that Mitochondrial Eve is our great, great, great, greatest, even greater than that, grandmother.
Monday
Journal Review: Why did modern human populations disperse from Africa 60,000 years ago?
The paper shows what the science community now knows about the mdoern human...DNA patterning of present world populations and archeological findings of skeletal remains shows that populations that were genetically and anatomically 'modern' emerged from Africa up to 50,000 years ago. These populationas dispersed from Africa to other parts of the world around 40,000n years ago, where they replaced the pre-existing 'archaic' populations there, such as the European Neanderthals.
The paper raises the question of why it took the modern human up to 100,000 years to disperse from Africa, and what are the crucial evolutionary and adaptive developmets tahta allowed these populations to colonise and defeat a range of entirely different environemts and its inhabitants. The paper further suggests that the answer to these questions lies partly in the results of recent DNA analysis among different geographical groups of Africans of the present day.
In my next post, I will be looking further into key discoveries that have been made over the past 2 decades that helped form our current understanding of where we came from.