EarlyDNA Story

[Dr. Cheese]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/...us_human_genes

I love this sort of stuff.

[Relic]

Me too, I can read about this stuff for hours.

[vbasscustom]

i love it so much, im considering going into some sort of anthropology as a career.

[hbarcat]

"This provides evidence for a migration from Siberia into the New World some 5,500 years ago, independent of that giving rise to the modern Native Americans and Inuit," the researchers wrote in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.


Awesome.


There used to be this simple idea of a single group of people coming across the land bridge and settling into the Americas. It's becoming clear that human migration patterns throughout history are far more complicated.

[Relic]

Originally Posted by hbarcat

"This provides evidence for a migration from Siberia into the New World some 5,500 years ago, independent of that giving rise to the modern Native Americans and Inuit," the researchers wrote in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.


Awesome.


There used to be this simple idea of a single group of people coming across the land bridge and settling into the Americas. It's becoming clear that human migration patterns throughout history are far more complicated.

My memory can be failing me at the moment so this could very well be wrong, but wasn't there a study one time that found some genetic similarities between the Ainu people of Japan and some Native American tribes? This would also kind of lend to a more complicated story of who came to the New World and when

[Rawkabilly]

Fascinating stuff. Thanks for the link.

[MakiSupaStar]

He looks like Carlos (NJL) with a prehistoric snuggy.

[IconBasser]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

He looks like Carlos (NJL) with a prehistoric snuggy.

he totally does!! That was spot-on, Maki, I wouldn't have thought of that