To: wideawake; Junior
Family names are (in Western cultures at least) carried by the male line. The studies showing "mitochondrial Eve" use genes that show only the female line. You can't prove you're related to your own father with mtDNA. That's Junior's point.
43 posted on
05/25/2005 6:17:29 AM PDT by
VadeRetro
( Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: VadeRetro
You can't prove you're related to your own father with mtDNA. That's Junior's point. Another way of putting it, your mtDNA line can die out but your nuclear genes can be spreading around the world at the same time.
49 posted on
05/25/2005 6:25:34 AM PDT by
VadeRetro
( Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson