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'''[[Oxyrhynchus]]'''
([[Greek language|Gr]].
&Omicron;&xi;&upsilon;&rho;&upsilon;&nu;&chi;&omicron;&sigmaf; ''Oxyrhynkhos'')
is an archaeological site in [[Egypt]], one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continuously excavated, yielding an enormous collection of [[papyrus]] texts from the [[Hellenistic]], [[Roman]] and [[Byzantine]] periods of Egyptian history. Among the texts discovered at Oxyrhynchus are plays of [[Menander]] and the [[Gospel of Thomas]], an important early [[Christian]] document.MitochondrialEve.jpg|frame|right|100px|An artist's impression of Mitochondrial Eve]]
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'''[[Mitochondrial Eve]]'''

A comparison of the [[mitochondrial DNA]] of [[human]]s from many [[race]]s and [[region]]s suggests that all of these [[DNA sequence]]s have [[molecular evolution|evolved molecularly]] from a common ancestor sequence. Under the assumption that an individual inherits [[Mitochondrion|mitochondria]] only from one's mother, this finding implies that all living humans have a female line of descent from a woman whom researchers have dubbed '''Mitochondrial Eve'''. Based on the [[molecular clock]] technique of correlating elapsed time with observed genetic drift, Eve is believed to have lived about 150,000 years ago (148,000 BC). [[Phylogeny]] suggests she lived in [[Africa]].   

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