23 SciMy Interview:
Professor Mark Stoneking Interviewed by Dr. New Jaa Yien
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Introduction
Professor Mark Stoneking is a world-reevolution. He (along with Professor Rebecca Cann and the late Professor Allan Wilson) is known for proposing the Mitochondrial Eve hypothesis in 1987. Analysis of mitochrondrial DNA (mtDNA) of ~150 modern humans from different geographic populations revealed that all of them had stemmed from a woman who lived 200,000 years ago in Africa, and this woman (aka Mitochondrial Eve) is hypothesised to be a common ancestor of all modern humanity . Prof. Stoneking is currently a Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and an Honorary Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. We caught up with Prof. Stoneking while he was in Malaysia to give a talk at the Monash University Malaysia in March this year.
Issue 11/2015
