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Anthropology

Buckeye_Democrat

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4. DNA is surely the best way to clear it up.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Oct 15, 2021, 10:16 AM

Oct 2021

Y-DNA (all-male lineages) and mitochondrial DNA (all-female lineages) barely changes at all from generation to generation. When the mutations happened, they tended to spread over a particular geographic area to show us how ancient humans migrated. (Especially when long-distance travel wasn't made so easy by planes and automobiles.)

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Analysis of ancient teeth questions theory that Native Americans originated from Japan [View all] Judi Lynn Oct 2021 OP

Which groups of Native Americans? Random Boomer Oct 2021 #1

none of the waves were of Jomon ancestry. Kali Oct 2021 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Kali Oct 2021 #2

DNA is surely the best way to clear it up. Buckeye_Democrat Oct 2021 #4

And it was done in this study. Kali Oct 2021 #5