Native Americans Descended From a Single Ancestral Group, DNA Study Confirms

UC Davis ^ | April 28, 2009 | Kari Schroeder and Liese Greensfelder

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'First Americans Were Australian'

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Reading Adovasio's book, The First Americans, is close enough.

[Varda]

I haven’t gotten around to reading that. Adovasio was a character when he was at Pitt and left (or was driven out) under a cloud. I hope he was a meticulous researcher even if he wasn’t meticulous about other things.

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I really enjoyed his but but people on FR who have had dealings with him say he is a real jerk. I didn’t get that impression from his book.

[DelphiUser]

Virtually without exception the new evidence supports the single ancestral population theory.

"Virtually ", LOL!

If the 9-repeat allele had arisen as a mutation multiple times, its presence throughout the Americas would not indicate shared ancestry.

So, we are dealing with Probabilities from a small sample and calling it "conclusive evidence...

To rule out these possibilities, the research team, which was headed by Noah Rosenberg at the University of Michigan, scrutinized DNA samples of people from 31 modern-day Asian populations, 19 Native American, one Greenlandic and two western Beringian populations.

19 native American "populations" out of thousands and this is conclusive? LOL!

So Godzilla, which is it, the Book of Mormon is false because the Native Americans didn't all descend from Lehi's group (which the book of Mormon does not claim), or is it false because they came from a single population, which is Asian in origin (the middle east is called Asian in the papers I have read)

Either way, this article is not worth debating as they did not have a large enough sampling to come to a conclusive opinion.

Go ahead and respond if you want, I probably won't respond again as this study is so flawed, Virtually no exceptions = there are exceptions, LOL!