Rewriting Greenland's immigration history

Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 13:49 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The first immigrants in Greenland were not Indians from the North American continent or Canadian Inuit as previously suggested. And it is not just a question of revising the Greenlandic immigration history. The discovery is the world's first successful attempt to sequence an entire mitochondrial genome from an extinct human.

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