Lulit: the L3 Mutator

Lulit's family has always lived in the fertile grasslands of Africa, where they gather nutritious plants and hunt majestic game animals for food. Lulit has a special connection to the land: her lion, Anbesa, who she has raised since he was a cub.But as a megadrought causes the plants and animals they eat to disappear, disaster strikes Lulit's family. With the land itself drying up, Lulit wonders if there's anything she can do to help her people.When her family decides that they must...
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Lulit's family has always lived in the fertile grasslands of Africa, where they gather nutritious plants and hunt majestic game animals for food. Lulit has a special connection to the land: her lion, Anbesa, who she has raised since he was a cub.But as a megadrought causes the plants and animals they eat to disappear, disaster strikes Lulit's family. With the land itself drying up, Lulit wonders if there's anything she can do to help her people.When her family decides that they must eat her lion to stay alive, Lulit knows that she must find another way. She sets out to find a new source of food - and a passage through the Great Desert, to the unknown lands in the north.This is a Genetic Eve story - a story of what life might have been like for the first girl to be born with a new mitochondrial DNA mutation. Lulit's special mutation - the L3 haplogroup - allows her to move fast, without needing as much food as her family. In time, her descendants will lead the way out of Africa, becoming the common ancestors to all non-African haplogroups.Follow Genetic Eve's book releases to learn about more other mitochondrial mutators, like Lulit's descendants Havva and Jera, whose mutations help them survive the challenges the Ice Age brings their people as they survive in the new lands to the north of the Great Salt Lake.Learn more at GeneticEve.com