From Paul Rendell
In the article “Eve came first”
(4 November, p 16),
the author says that “all the descendants of other women with different
mitochondria died out”, when in fact it is just the mitochondria of the other
women that died out. Many of these women will have living descendants through
male offspring. In fact, many may be the ancestors of all the people now living.
Coventry, West Midlands
