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Found: Closest Link to Eve, Our ­niversal Ancestor


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Humanity's roots

Humanity's roots are in Africa.

Credit: Danita Delimont/Getty

A man who died in 315 BC in southern Africa is the closest relative yet known to humanity’s common female ancestor—mitochondrial Eve.

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