Angie
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Angie
@angmatange
good vibes, but still dead inside.
The MidWest Coast Katılım Nisan 2009
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Mitochondrial Eve is what scientists call her. She lived roughly 150,000 years ago in Africa. Every single human alive today traces their maternal line back to her.
She was not the only woman alive at the time. She was just the one whose unbroken maternal line survived to the present day.
Every other maternal line eventually hit a generation with no daughters and went silent. Hers never did.
That is not mythology. That is population genetics. Happy Women's Day.
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Well, when a child is conceived, the DNA split is 50/50 from both parents. Except for one small detail: mitochondrial DNA. It’s passed down only through the mother and never through sperm.
Which means something interesting: all living humans can trace their mitochondrial line back to one woman, not one man.
And every daughter born continues passing that same line forward.
Happy Women’s Day 💐
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