[King Prout]

what the hell?

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2716

patrilineal mitochondrial inheritance?

[MHalblaub]

patrilineal mitochondrial inheritance

Einstein's answer to a similar question was:

"It is a technical term."

But I'm not a nerved Einstein. My guess for
paternal mitochondrial inheritance
is fatherly mitochondrial inheritance. So a child also has Mitochondrias from father.

[MHalblaub]

I think I found the original paper.

Marianne Schwartz and John Vissing, "Paternal Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA", New England Journal of Medicine, Aug 22, 2002; 347:576-580

http://www.life.uiuc.edu/csb/213/PDF/mitochondria.pdf

[shubi]

Now, if the creationists will try to understand, THIS FINDING DOES NOT REFUTE EVOLUTION!

If more evidence occurs to substantiate this finding, the hypothesis that mitochondrial DNA is inherited ONLY through the mother will be descarded.

This contrasts to Noah's Ark which has been shown to be nonsense, yet is never discarded by the literalist cults.