Mitochondrial Eve lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago; her unbroken maternal lineage connects every living human today, but she was neither the first woman nor the only woman of her time |

Image: Left/ncse/Right/Pumpkin Person Every person alive today carries a mitochondrial genome that came from their mother, who received it from hers, and so on back through hundreds of thousands of years. Follow that chain far enough, and every line meets in one woman who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago. Scientists call her Mitochondrial…

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Kharif crop losses likely to touch ₹20,000 crore in Telangana | Hyderabad News

Hyderabad: Telangana’s kharif crop losses are estimated at ₹20,000 crore, mainly in paddy and cotton, while rabi cultivation could shrink to 70 lakh acres from the normal 1.3 crore acres amid continuing rainfall deficit, according to Professor Jayashankar Telangana Agriculture University (PJTAU).The university estimated kharif losses after factoring in a 25% decline in cropped area,…

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