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52 "Mitochondrial Eve" Thesis's Inconsistencies, The

or gan elles in the cell. The DNA in the chim pan zee is man's an ces tor.
the nu cle us forms as a re sult of the Over hun dreds of thou sands of
com bi na tion of DNA from the moth - years, ac cord ing to this claim, ran -
er and fa ther, but the moth er is the dom mu ta tions turned chim pan zee
sole source of the mi to chon dri al DNA in to our present mi to chon dri al
DNA. Every hu man be ing's mi to - DNA. Starting from that pre con cep -
chon dri al DNA is there fore iden ti cal tion, they then at tempt ed to de ter -
to his or her moth er's, and there fore, mine where and when the present
the or i gin of man can be re searched ev o lu tion a ry fam i ly tree be gan.
by fol low ing this trail. The Berkeley University bi o -
The "mi to chon dri al Eve" the sis chemists Wilson, Cann and
dis torts this fact by in ter pret ing it ac - Stoneking, who first pro posed the
cord ing to the dog mas of the the o ry the o ry, set out with fun da men tal as -
of ev o lu tion. A few ev o lu tion ist sci - sump tions that were im pos si ble to
en tists have re gard ed the mi to chon - prove:
dri al DNA of the first hu man oid as 1. The or i gin of mi to chon dri al
the DNA of chim pan zees, by view - DNA lies in hom i nids, in oth er
ing as in dis pu ta ble sci en tif ic fact the words ape-like crea tures.
claim that 2. Mutations must have caused
reg u lar chan ges in mi to chon dri al
Cell
DNA.
mem brane
3. These mu ta tions must have
tak en place con stant ly and at a
fixed rate.
Cytoplasm
Lysozome Taking these as sump -
Mitochondria tions as their ba sis, the re -
Nucleus
search ers be lieved that
Endoplasmic
they could ob tain a mo -
ret ic u lum
lec u lar clock to show
Chromosome how quick ly a spe cies
changed with in the al -
leged proc ess of ev o lu -

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