[Renfield]

Ping

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[count-your-change]

” reinforces the truth that all humans are closely related.”

Some of us knew that already.

[vortec94]

And the Native Americans of the West Coast look Oriental. We know about that landbridge in Alaska. Consider for a moment that Native American oral history recounts the meteor strike in New Mexico. (some 50,000 years ago) Consider that Native Americans believe they were created here. Why couldn't those two migrations have started here and gone to Asia and Europe. Oh, silly me. Need some coffee.

[Viiksitimali]

Admixture: An Amerindian Component in Eurasian Populations

[Verginius Rufus]

I have Northern European ancestry. Where do I sign up for my casino?

[x]

Not so surprising, is it? Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, and the language of the Lapps are related to languages spoken in the Urals.

Assuming that the relationship or connection isn't just linguistic and that Finns, Estonians, Lapps, and Hungarians intermarried with other Northern European peoples, and that those Uralic peoples intermarried with Siberian tribes that eventually made their way to North America, why would anybody think there weren't genetic connections?

Also, a lot of Europeans are descended (in small part) from Tatars and Mongols, who might themselves in turn have been very distantly related to Asian wanderers who became American Indians. Tatars and Mongols belong to the Altaic language groups, and there's speculation that some American Indian groups also trace their ancestry back to the Altai.

Of course, all this is more complicated than I could possibly understand. Relationships between languages don't always mean close genetic relationships. But they do suggest possible connections.