Native Americans Descended From A Single Ancestral Group (Which Includes Greenlanders) - Study
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 11:15
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Did ancestors of Native Americans migrate to the New World in one wave or successive waves, from one ancestral Asian population or a number of different populations? The topic has been debated for decades but after comparing DNA samples from people in dozens of modern-day Native American and Eurasian groups, an international team of scientists thinks it can put the matter to rest: Virtually without exception the new evidence supports the single ancestral population theory, according to the study published in the May issue of the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution. read more
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