ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Milford H. Wolpoff, Anatomically Modern Human, Mitochondrial Eve
6 Aug 2020
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4 units: multiregional continuity, milford wolpoff (u. michigan) and alan thorne (australian nat. They tried to figure out how long modern human racial groups have been separate. This type of dna is inherited from a single lineage and is only passed through the mother, whereas nuclear dna is inherited from all ancestors: maternal inheritance- mtdna is only inherited from mother, you can trace back. Neanderthal forensic analysis of spear wound in neanderthal suggests it was a thrown spear (used only by modern homo sapiens), not a thrusting spear (used by. Neanderthals: on the male side, we have y-chromosome dating. Much more complex technique than mtdna due to larger genome (60 million base pairs v. s 17,000 base pairs for mtdna). It was used to confirm results of mtdna. 2010- scientists discovered that up to 4% of the dna of modern humans is shared with. This is proof that neanderthals and early modern humans interbred.
