Inherited solely from the mother: Mitochondrial DNA is passed down 100% from mother to child.
Mitochondrial Eve: Tracing the maternal lineages of all modern humans back in time leads to a single woman.
Everyone on Earth is related: She was not the only human alive at the time, but because the maternal lineages of other women died out, all of humanity today shares this common ancestor.
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Trace back the mitochondrial DNA, and all of humanity is related!
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