"Mitochondrial Eve"

The mother of us all?

In the News

see also:

"Out of Africa"
vs.
"Multi-Regional Hypothesis"

• Why Do We Inherit Mitochondrial DNA Only From Our Mothers? -- New York Times (23 June 2016)
  
  
• What Are Mitochondria? -- LiveScience (30 April 2015)
  
  
• Found: Closest Link to Eve, Our Universal Ancestor -- New Scientist (09 October 2014)
  
  
• New Studies Suggest an ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ Link -- New York Times (12 August 2013)
  
  
• Genetic 'Adam' and 'Eve' Uncovered -- Discovery News (02 August 2013)
  
  

• Commentary: All About Eve, and Other Mothers -- NPR
  
  
• Fossil Hominids: mitochondrial DNA -- talkorigins.org
  
  
• Genetic "Adam" never met "Eve" -- BBC
  
  
• Misconceptions Around Mitochondrial Eve -- Alec MacAndrew
  
  
• Mitochondrial Eve -- An Explanation -- BBC
  
  
• Mitochondrial "Eve" Theory -- Different perspectives -- The Freeman Institute
  
  
• Neanderthals on Trial: Tracing Ancestry with MtDNA -- NOVA
  
  
• Tanzania, Ethiopia origin for humans -- Paul Rincon
  
  
• Y-Chromosome: Y and Mighty -- Kevin MacDonald
  
  
• Videos
  
  
  • Children of Eve (58 min., 1987, VC 961) -- a historical look at "Eve" and other important finds

 

"Structure of a
generalized eukaryotic cell,
illustrating
the cell's
three-dimensional nature."

Tour of the Cell >
  mitochondria
-- NS

 

"An artist's impression of Mitochondrial Eve who probably lived in Africa, about 150,000 years ago." -- Wikipedia