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To: Red Badger
extract enough DNA to determine her shared genetic code with modern Native Americans

Guess it doesn't matter now whether Kennewick Man was a white man or not.

13 posted on 05/16/2014 10:24:35 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: MUDDOG
ABSTRACT from the Science article:

Because of differences in craniofacial morphology and dentition between the earliest American skeletons and modern Native Americans, separate origins have been postulated for them, despite genetic evidence to the contrary. We describe a near-complete human skeleton with an intact cranium and preserved DNA found with extinct fauna in a submerged cave on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. This skeleton dates to between 13,000 and 12,000 calendar years ago and has Paleoamerican craniofacial characteristics and a Beringian-derived mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup (D1). Thus, the differences between Paleoamericans and Native Americans probably resulted from in situ evolution rather than separate ancestry.

14 posted on 05/16/2014 10:34:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: MUDDOG

Kennewick wasn’t a white man. That was a mistake by the original forensic guy who didn’t know he was dealing with an ancient skeleton.


23 posted on 05/16/2014 11:52:51 AM PDT by Varda
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