mitochondrial eve: the original orange powerhouse

Mitochondrial Eve

This morning Pooky was channel surfing and paused briefly on either The Learning Channel or Discovery as there was this blurb about where we all come from, a woman named 'Eve' who lived in Africa tens of thousands of years ago. A scientist who has done mitochondrial DNA mapping of numerous

people of African and European ancestry discovered that our origin can be traced back to this one woman. It made me think of how in all of my biology textbooks that the mitochondrion is depicted as being organge. I wonder why it was assigned this color? I'm not fond of orange so I suppose that is my reason for mentioning this peculiar color-coding of cell organelles.

Be that as it may, it made me think of this person's website I came across when I was looking for some understanding of why people hate. There was this person who fully admitted to hating and used the Bible as his defense for his hatred. One of his beliefs was that black people were created after white people, and he somehow managed to dredge up some kind of Biblical implication this was true, but he couldn't actually muster up an actual passage that says this. I'm sure this deluded person would deny the scientific findings that it was indeed black people that we originated from. Long before the whole mitochondrial DNA and Eve theory came into being, biologists felt that our origins were in Africa and that white skin is merely a mutation, or better put, and adaptation, to living in a northern, colder climate. Plus, the skeletal remains of the oldness known humans and humanoids have been found in Africa.

The quest to discover our origins is fascinating, and personally I feel that there is more to be revealed once we get over our prejudice toward extraterrestrial life. If the current scientific measurements are accurate, our Earth is about 5 billion years old. The Universe as we known it is around 15 billion years old. Wouldn't it seem highly likely that life started elsewhere and then those people 'johnny appleseeded' their way around the galaxies?

I am not sure why our government and other national governments are so worried about 'national security' and the need to cover-up any evidence of ETs. There will also be those people who wig out over that kind of information being verified, but I think many people would accept it and feel a sense of not being so alone in the Universe.