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쿞TUDY BACKS U.S. THEORY THAT HUMANS DESCENDED FROM AN �
쿌FRICAN WOMAN �
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쿥ASHINGTON (SEPT. 27) DPA - A team of U.S. researchers �
쿟hursday said they had found important new evidence to back �
퀅p a theory that all humans originated from one African �
퀇oman around 200,000 years ago. �
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쿌nthropologists from Pennsylvania State University and the �
쿢niversity of California in Berkeley said the ''strongest �
쿬onfirmation yet'' had come from an analysis of the genetic �
쿺aterial DNA. �
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쿟he scientists contructed a ''tree of evolution'' after �
퀃racing DNA from 189 people in various parts of the world �
쿫ack to a single ancestor, a woman who they estimate lived �
쿫etween 166,000 and 249,000 years ago. �
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쿟he results lend further weight to a U.S. theory on African �
쿽rigin put forward in 1987. �
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쿟he researchers call the common ancestor ''Eve'' and say she�
쿾robably lived in sub-Saharan Africa. Her people were dark- �
퀂kinned, shorter and stocker than modern humans, said co- �
쿪uthor of the 1987 study, Mark Stoneking. �
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