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New approaches to dating suggest a recent age for the human mtDNA ancestor.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Aug 1992

Stoneking M, Sherry S T, Redd A J, Vigilant L

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The most critical and controversial feature of the African origin hypothesis of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) evolution is the relatively recent age of about 200 ka inferred for the human mtDNA ancestor. If this age is wrong, and the actual age instead approaches 1 million years ago, then the controversy abates. Reliable estimates of the age of the human mtDNA ancestor and the associated standard error are...

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PMID: 1357691
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1992.0094

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