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The myth of Eve: molecular biology and human origins.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 22 Dec 1995
Ayala F J
Abstract excerpt
It has been proposed that modern humans descended from a single woman, the "mitochondrial Eve" who lived in Africa 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. The human immune system DRB1 genes are extremely polymorphic, with gene lineages that coalesce into an ancestor who lived around 60 million years ago, a time before the divergence of the apes from the Old World monkeys. The theory of gene coalescence suggests that,...
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