Kennewick Man closely related to Native Americans, geneticists say

Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 12:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

DNA from the 8,500-year-old skeleton of an adult man found in 1996, in Washington, is more closely related to Native American populations than to any other population in the world, according to an international collaborative study conducted by scientists at the University of Copenhagen and the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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