Re: The indo european "race"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

> > True, but rather than establishing the validity of intraspecies
> > family tree structures, doesn't this fact really serve to
> demonstrate
> > the limitations of MtDNA and Y DNA analysis in determining a
> > populations' ancestry? The further back you go, the smaller the
> > percentage of the ancestry revealed by the method.
> >
>
> Even worse, apparently mtDNA doesn't necessarily mean maternal DNA:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/294808.stm

Is there any evidence that this research has been published? I
remember reading that the author of the 'Seven Daughters of Eve' had
heard of similar (possibly the same) research, but that it had never
been published. He suspected that the conclusion was the result of
a mistake (or accident) in the analysis of samples.

Richard.