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Paper

1987

Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution

Rebecca L. Cann, Mark Stoneking & Allan C. Wilson

Traces all living human mitochondrial DNA to a single African population within the last 200,000 years, evidence for a recent African origin of modern humans over multiregional continuity.

No free copy is linked yet — expect to buy or borrow this one elsewhere.

Groundwork for

Works in the library that name this one as a prerequisite.

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal GenomeRichard E. Green et al., 2010Sequences the Neanderthal genome and finds it contributed 1-4% of the DNA of present-day non-Africans, meaning interbreeding, not simple replacement, followed the two lineages' split.

Filed under Evolutionary Biology in Biology.