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CANN, Rebecca Louise (1951 – )

1951 –

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1987 CE

#7256

Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution.

Cann's discovery that all living humans are genetically descended from a single African mother, known as Mitochrondrial Eve, who lived <200,000 years ago, became the foundation of the Out of Africa theory, the most wi…