The female-only lines of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, Australians and the rest are of Recent African Origin. With the proviso that the link between any one coalescence point and a historical event is very loose, mitochondria nevertheless support the idea of a recent African exodus. More precisely, the geographical pattern within the M and N branches hints at an exodus that left the Horn of Africa and skirted the south coast of Arabia, entering the rest of the world via Asia, just in time to explain Mungo man, a fully modern fossilised Australian.
