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Mitochondrial Eve
(redirected from African Eve)

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Mitochondrial Eve
A hypothetical ‘mother of mankind’, who is postulated to have lived in Africa ±200,000 BC


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Although the African Eve is said to be 150,000 years ago, the migration to the Middle East is said to have occurred around 80,000 years ago.
The shadowy waters of the bayou had offered protection to runaway slaves before abolition and now, in the present day of the film, seem to harbor images of a figure that could be the ghost of the original African Eve still watching over her progeny to the wistful strains of the film's haunting musical theme.
For example, mtDNA analysis is at the heart of the con- troversial African Eve hypothesis, which traces human origins to a single woman in Africa (SN: 9/25/93, p.
 
 
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