The DNA in MITOCHONDRIA—mitochondrial DNA—is inherited only from our mothers. Molecular biologists, knowing something of the way in which mitochondrial DNA mutates, have estimated that all modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens, see HOMINID)...

Mitochondrial Eve (mt-mrca) is the name given by researchers to the woman who is defined as the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) for all living humans. Passed down from mothers to offspring for over a hundred thousand years, her...

Since 1987, an influential group of molecular biologists has published several reports indicating that analyses of mitochondrial DNA -- genetic material located outside the cell nucleus and inherited only from the mother -- track the maternal lineage of all humans back to one...

Abstract A growing body of evidence has demonstrated a link between various disturbances in mitochondrial functioning and type 2 diabetes. This review focuses on a range of mitochondrial factors important in the pathogenesis of this disease. The mitochondrion is an integral part...

This essay goes over Mitochondrial DNA: what it is, and the Mitochondrial Eve theory. Is the Out of Africa evolutional theory correct? And, does this theory prove something to this effect?