"Great Surprise"—Native Americans Have West Eurasian Origins

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

Nearly one-third of Native American genes come from west Eurasian peoples with ties to the Middle East and Europe, according to the oldest human genome yet sequenced, a new study says.

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