Mind-blowing Facts That Literally Nobody Has Heard Before

The Mitochondrial Mother

Mitochondria are only passed down to you from your mother, so in theory, there was once a master mitochondria mother. We cannot know this for absolute certain, but scientists have been able to trace the mitochondria back to Eastern Africa. 

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