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The Mitochoncrial DNA study was published in Scientific American around 1996. Mitochondrial DNA is found in the female of the species. It is passed from mother to daughter. While men may have multiple mates and progeny the female DNA is "pure" as passed from mother to daughter.

the 1998 study was based on scientists who wished to study the "Human Race" and it's migratory pattern. They called for the collection of umblical cords, (cleanest purest source of this DNA) from all over the world. Using a genetic technique to measure the current DNA and follow the DNa backward from mother to grandmother etc they were able to look back at the DNA migration and eventually find the source of present day human populations.

Inuits in Greenland, Peruvian Indians, Alaskan Eskimos, Indians in Oklahoma, Aztecs, Germanic tribes, English Celtics, Eytalians all of humanity shared a common Great Great Grandmother 100,000 years ago.

The scientist called her EVE

The reverse migratory trek of the mitochondrial DNA led the scientist to postulate that EVE lived in the Horn of Africa!

Ergo the whole of Humanity are Arican whatever. Therefore George Washington was our First African American President and soforth and so on!

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