Posted on 11/05/2013 6:05:07 PM PST by Pharmboy
An analysis of ancient DNA from a 24,000-year-old Siberian skeleton generates a new model for the original peopling of the Western Hemisphere.
Native Americans may not have descended from East Asians who crossed the Bering Land Bridge more than 15,000 years ago, according to a new genomic analysis of a millennia-old Siberian skeleton. A portion of the nuclear DNA recovered from the upper arm bone of a 4-year-old boy that was buried near the Siberian village of Mal’ta about 24,000 years ago is shared by modern Native Americans and no other group. But the boy appears to have been descended from people of European or western Asian origin.
Eske Willerslev, a University of Copenhagen ancient DNA expert, announced the findings last week at the Paleoamerican Odyssey conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the resulting manuscript is in press at Nature. In addition to finding genome regions shared by modern Native Americans, he and collaborator Kelly Graf of Texas A&M University found that the boy’s Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA belonged to haplogroups that are found almost exclusively in Europeans and people living in Asia west of the Altai Mountains.
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Congrats, blam, this proves it.
How did they lose the Asian snow flap on the eyelid so quickly if they are truly Oriental?
I have noticed that the eyelid shape for American Indians can vary depending on the geographic area of the tribe.
Genetics ping...
All one has to do is look at a Plains Indian then look at one from the Amazon. Hugo Chavez would be a good example.
They don’t appear even remotely kin. I would guess there were probably at least 3 different ethnic groups in pre-Columbian America.
There goes the affirmative action.
Now THAT’S funny...sounds like something Rush would say.
Noah had only three sons. And the continents were in the “Pangaea” configuration until the days of Peleg.
As always; subject to further discovery. BEEP!
I’m getting tired of hearing about the book though.
Does anyone know what “the mark of Cain” was? I have never heard exactly what it was.
Well, now they are going to have to change the name from Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to Bureau of European Affairs (BEA). I declare myself a sovereign nation! Where’s my check?
Thanks for the ping!
One boy in Siberia.
Interesting speculation. But if a Bering land bridge allowed movement one way, it allowed movement the other way too. Maybe this was a later descendent of American Indians for all we know.
probably from “uwth” (in the sense of appearing); a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:—mark, miracle, (en-)sign, token.
I’m getting tired of hearing about the book though.
I’ll bet he pays himself for advertising it.
I’ve wondered how they account for that.
Funny you mention that...it was just yesterday listening to him in the car when I muttered to myself: “Enough, Rush, let it go.”
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