Completed genome from Clovis-era skeleton proves Native American origins, scientists say

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/12/completed-genome-from-clovis-era-skeleton-proves-native-american-origins-scientists-say/



Completed genome from Clovis-era skeleton proves Native American origins, scientists say
By Reuters
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 16:11 EST

For more than 20 years anthropologists have debated whether the first Americans arrived in the New World by walking over a land bridge across the Bering Strait, as millions of schoolchildren have been taught, or by sea from southwest Europe, perhaps in animal-skin kayaks.

A new analysis challenges the out-of-Europe hypothesis, which has figured in a political debate over the rights of present-day Native American tribes.

Scientists announced on Wednesday that they had, for the first time, determined the full genome sequence of an ancient American, a toddler who lived some 12,600 years ago and was buried in western Montana.

His DNA, they report, links today’s Native Americans to ancient migrants from easternmost Asia.

[MisterP]

1. here's where the difficulty comes in

Amerindians are Q and their closest relative is R--Europeans (and the next after that is Papuan M; further back are the N and O Finnasionesians)