[blam]

DNA does not match any humans alive today. (Now, I wonder if it matches the human DNA from Australian that claims the same) The original Americans are now extinct?

[blam]

FYI.

[error99]

It is not clear from reading the article how the investigators ever got the notion that these were "human" hairs in the first place.

[rolling_stone]

Don't get excited, I heard the same thing about OJ's hair samples...

[Question_Assumptions]

Yet more possible evidence that the "Native Americans" are carpet baggers just like the Europeans. People need to be very careful before they start playing "We were here first!" games.

[RightWhale]

IT'S ALMOST AS IF THEY WERE QUICK FROZEN

That's a Linda Moulton Howe quote of Dr Orr. That ties in with the quick-frozen animals in interior Alaska as far as the time scale. It has something to do with the last ice-age, almost as if the earth tipped on its axis and dumped whole geographic regions into arctic cold momentarily.

LMH has a good reputation as a reporter of Fortean-type events.

[machman]

I don't know if it is junk science here or not. But the fact that the first "amercians" were killed off or simply replaced by later arrivals. Just as most of what are "Europeans" today were not "native" to their lands several thousands of years ago. This is natural, population migrations must have happened all the time with the local populations getting replaced in the process.

But if the scientist are right and we are all came out of Africa, we here is the US are all "African-Americans". I call those with with dark skin "Americans of recent African decent". ;^)

[Verginius Rufus]

Very interesting. This could mean that the Paleo-Indians are off the hook for causing the extinction of the paleo-horses and other paleo-megafauna.

Is the Woodburn longhaired man/woman/sasquatch any relation to Kennewick Man? The Clintonistas did their best to see to it that Kennewick Man would be buried away and lost to science, but I think the bones are still in someone's safekeeping.

[white rose]

OK, I realize this will probably sound like a stupid question to you science mavens out there, but here goes: If the hair does not match any known human DNA, what makes them think it's human?