African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity

Christopher Stringer & Robin McKie (Holt and Company - 1996)

In 1987 the University of California at Berkeley took specimens from placentas of 147 women from various ethnic groups to analyze Mitochondrial DNA. They compared the placentas in order of affinity in a chronological chart for mankind—the world’s races and/or global genealogy.

The study produced three conclusions:

It revealed that very few mutational differences exist between the Mitochondrial DNA of human beings be they Vietnamese, New Guineans, Scandavians, or Tongans. When the researchers put their data in a computer, they expected it to produce the most likely set of linkages between the different people according to the similarity of their Mitochondrial DNA. It created a tree with 2 main branches.

• One consisted solely of Africans. The other contained the remaining people of African origin and everyone else in the world.
• The study showed African people had slightly more Mitochondrial DNA mutations compared to non-Africans; implying roots of Africans were a little older.
• Africans carry a mix of all humans’ genes that have emanated from the original founding group of Homo sapiens.
  
  What can be concluded from the study:

• The amount of melanin a person contains creates the dominant gene.
• Black people of any ethnicity or nationality have the only complete DNA among all people on the Earth.
• The historical context of the idea that we are "mixed" suggests that we are less African as the result of said "mixing," of which is not a biological fact.
• It is important to understand that Blacks are not the effect of something but are the prototype or the end product.
• Human beings anatomically and physiologically contain African DNA, whether we or anyone else suffers from denial regarding this fact.