The answer, I suppose, is the speed of the change and the depth of the impact it produced. When Emma Mbua, curator of hominids at the Nairobi museum, showed me a selection of famous skulls, I could see straight away that Homo erectus represented a quantum jump. And measured on the clo...
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damaged by reactive oxygen species (ROS) triggers so far poorly understood processes of mtDNA maintenance that are coordinated by a complex interplay among DNA repair, DNA degradation, and DNA replication. This study was designe