The study of mitochondrial DNA has enabled scientists to trace a family tree that connects all of humanity to a single female ancestor.

Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations to trace back to our common African root in a giant human "tree ... world at the time of mitochondrial Eve were completely ...

That famous article, “Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution” was published in 1987 and was the first study to uncover the family tree of human evolution. Moreover, it came to that puzzling ...

The study of mitochondrial DNA has enabled scientists to trace a family tree that connects all of humanity to a single female ancestor who lived 200,000 years ago in present-day Botswana.