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Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af... by saiya-jin on Thursday September 22, 2016 @04:04AM (#12555286)
it was worse than that - according to my phd cellular research ex-gf (some rare anemias), at one point there were only 5 women/females from which we all come from. this can be traced in all of our DNA.

I presume it was before homo sapiens, so maybe a million years ago if not more (sorry I don't have any factual details, but girl was super clever and she stated this as a well known fact in their research community).

all the racists of this world should get a bit of education to get perspective (wishful thinking...)

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Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af... by talideon on Thursday September 22, 2016 @04:38AM (#12555418)
> at one point there were only 5 women/females from which we all come from. this can be traced in all of our DNA.

Mitochondrial DNA, not nuclear DNA. There may have been more ultimate female ancestors at the bottleneck, but only that number have had their mitochondrial DNA propagated.

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