Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af...
by talideon on Thursday September 22, 2016 @04:38AM
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> 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.
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.