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Anthropology

wnylib

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1. Well, I've found a couple long lost cousins at online genealogy sites, but

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2022, 05:56 AM

Jul 2022

this is the first one that turned up in China.

Since there were Native American in North America before 14,000 years ago, if this fossil is 14,000 years old, it must be a descendant of an earlier population that contributed to Native American DNA. This fossil would explain why some Native Americans in South America have some DNA that is linked to Austronesians.

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