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repeated the study in 1992, admitted in a letter to Science magazine that
the "African Eve" thesis was invalid. 163
In addition, mitochondrial DNA analyses were performed on the

assumption that mitochondria are passed on only by the mother, and
that changes in mitochondrial DNA components can thus be traced
back though the matriarchal line, right back to the very earliest ances-
tor. But in fact, the idea that mitochondria are passed on only by fe-
males is now no more than a myth, because scientific discoveries have
shown that mitochondria can also be handed down from the father.
"Mitochondria can be inherited from both parents," a report in New
Scientist magazine, described how Danish patients had received
around 90% of their mitochondria from their fathers. This meant that
all mtDNA studies supporting evolutionary scenarios were completely
meaningless.

This state of affairs is described in New Scientist magazine:
Evolutionary biologists often date the divergence of species by the differ-
ences in genetic sequences in mitochondrial DNA. Even if paternal DNA
is inherited very rarely, it could invalidate many of their findings. 164
Despite being a well-known evolutionist publication, the maga-
zine Nature admitted that these findings disproved the hypotheses of
mitochondrial DNA:

The assumption that mitochondrial DNA . . . is inherited purely through
the maternal line is a lynchpin of studies tracking human evolutionary
history and the movements of human populations in the prehistoric
past. 165
Finally, an article in the journal Annals of Human Genetics reported
that more than half of all the mitochondrial DNA analyses published to
date had been found to be flawed. 166 According to the report, the mito-
chondrial DNA data banks used by evolutionists were based on incor-
rectly processed data. This state of affairs, revealed by the researcher
Peter Forster, was reported in Nature magazine: