Mitochondrial Eve and the Affective Politics of Human Ancestry.
This article explores a scientific technology—mitochondrial analysis—that underlies contemporary technoscientific phenomena such as genetic ancestry tests, ethnic diversity projects, and national genome projects. The article focuses on the figure of "Mitochondrial Eve," the most recent common matril...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 747 - 773 |
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University of Chicago Press
Spring2015
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