Rewriting Greenland's Immigration History
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 19:35
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.