[Vaquero]

ping for later

[Recon Dad]

“In other words, these differences are so large that it is highly improbable that the earliest inhabitants of the New World were the direct ancestors of recent Native American populations.”

This is very troubling from a legal standpoint. What happens when the descendants of the earlier inhabitants want to open up casinos, all the good locations are already taken.

[Varda]

They’ve been doing this for years. The morphology between the ancients and moderns looks different but the genetics say they’re the same. I go with the genetics. Animal studies have shown that morphology can change radically in a few thousand years.

[Jack Hammer]

Meanwhile, the Caucasian skull recovered from a riverbed in Oregon has been suppressed.

[Longbow1969]

Skulls show New World was settled twice: study

Excellent, 2 more national holidays!

[pnh102]

So the people who call themselves Native Americans are descended from a group of people who came here and stole the land from its previous inhabitants? :)

[pabianice]

Why else do you think “native americans” screech and demand that any recently discovered skulls be immediately reburied before they can be studied?

[aruanan]

Two distinct groups from Asia settled in the New World and not one single migration as suggested by previous genetic studies, experts said Monday after comparing the skulls of early Americans.

Isn't there evidence of other, non-Asian, people?

[Grig]

Jareites and Nephites, this is old news.

[dog breath]

Skull morphology is a rather poor way of supporting a theory. Genetic studies already pointed toward several distinct groups of people and admixtures of peoples forming Native American populations.

[Tainan]

'Mormons?'



...I'm just asking.

[wolfcreek]

Keep looking! (further back)

We already know there were people here before Younger Dryas.

[bert]

Wonder if these guys were included in the study?

Both are apparently American