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How Did People Reach the Americas?
US News ^ | July 24, 2008 | Andrew Curry

Posted on 07/27/2008 10:12:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

[isn't this Gannett?]


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: dna; emptydna; godsgravesglyphs; mtdna
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To: Lancey Howard

Sure, but that was just a few times, and in the 20th century. ;’)


21 posted on 07/27/2008 11:18:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv
“literally no one is looking.”

Hmmm? Wonder why?

Could be some kinds of bias or resistance from certain religions or other institutions?

22 posted on 07/28/2008 4:02:50 AM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: SunkenCiv
There was a show on I think the Science channel last week about this very subject and that was the conclusion. The nomads stayed close to the food along the edge of the ice and followed it. Twist is that there is some proof that the same thing happened from Europe also and DNA studies will prove or disprove that. BTW the world wide MDNA study is concluding and very close to done. The word in the world of DNA scientists is that it will turn many old theories on their ear. We shall see.
23 posted on 07/28/2008 4:52:05 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

DNA studies can tell only which genes exist now, and that only in the sampled people. It doesn’t give geographic origins, or even much in the way of ancestry.


24 posted on 07/28/2008 8:15:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: wolfcreek

Yes, from the Church of Clovis-First-and-Only.


25 posted on 07/28/2008 8:36:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv

You are correct about what genes exist now and there is some discussion about the “first” Americans suffering a mass extinction of some kind. However, MDNA studies have proven very useful when tracing migration of the current gene pool. Along with bone analysis as correlation there is a strong pattern of migration developing. I suspect that we will find that there were three or even four distinct migrations in ancient times to the Americas.


26 posted on 07/28/2008 9:08:17 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

These studies don’t do anything but prop up existing views. One DNA sequence that was found common among sampled folks with PreColumbian American ancestry was found in just one sampled person in Asia. The conclusion drawn? That that one person in Asia carried a DNA sequence that had otherwise died out in Asia, but had been carried into the Americas by someone in the small, Beringia-walker population; obviously, A) this should show that reliance on DNA doesn’t make sense, because the arguments are constructed to justify the results (the DNA sequence isn’t found there in great numbers now, therefore it must always have been uncommon, or died out for mysterious reasons, or just hasn’t been found because so few folks have been sampled worldwide), and B) that the Bering migration route didn’t have a one-way sign, or a limited time frame.


27 posted on 07/28/2008 9:21:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv
The most recent studies I have seen (last week) indicate just the opposite. The DNA corresponds to people who do not look anything like what we think of as Native Americans.

Latest stuff:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0731_wireearlyamericans.html

28 posted on 07/28/2008 9:33:38 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

no such legacy file error, so:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b938cda48c8.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1985250/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1778364/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/767901/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/670296/posts


29 posted on 07/28/2008 9:52:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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Star Trek Inspirational Posters

30 posted on 07/28/2008 11:18:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv
humm sorry. NatGEO had alot of the most current articles and papers.
31 posted on 07/28/2008 12:39:37 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

? Heh... if it’s ever appeared anywhere, it’s probably on FR. :’)


32 posted on 07/28/2008 12:43:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Yes, from the Church of Clovis-First-and-Only.”

Those folks need to wake up with a 50,000 year old corpse in the bed.


33 posted on 07/28/2008 12:54:40 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: wolfcreek

;’)


34 posted on 07/28/2008 2:03:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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35 posted on 03/15/2015 6:46:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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