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In short, yes. Every living person today descends from a single female Homo sapiens sapiens who lived in the area of East Africa, some 152,000 to 234,000 years ago. This has been determined by tracing mitochondrial DNA (the nonrecombinant DNA that is passed from mother to offspring, and so on, unchanged by anything other than mutation. This female is referred to as Mitochondrial Eve, and could have been of no other anthropological group than Congoid (sub-saharan African).

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