What is the mitochondrial DNA evidence? I would be interested in
reading about this if you have a reference that I can look up
(preferably a paper that can be downloaded).

Mike

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>This discovery converges with mitochondrial DNA studies, according to
>which the human species is about 225,000 years old.  Prior to this
>discovery, the oldest anatomically human fossils were just 160,000 years
>old.  So the gap between the two lines of evidence has narrowed quite a
>bit.  And as the article points out, the "great leap forward" that took
>place about 50,000 years ago (I'd always heard 40,000) remains
>unexplained.  Pretty interesting stuff.
>
>Todd Moody
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