Women played big part in migrations - U.S. studies WASHINGTON (Reuters) - History records all the great pioneers as men, dating all the way back to the unknown early man who led his people out of Africa. But a genetic study published Tuesday tells a different tale. Genes indicate that, throughout history, women have traveled farther afield than men and left a more permanent mark in the form of their DNA. Researchers looked at mitochondrial DNA - the genetic material in a cell that is passed down untouched from mother to child. A study of 14 African populations showed that variations in mitochondrial DNA were nearly eight times more widely dispersed than the different versions of the Y chromosome, which only men carry. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556798479-853>
