First peoples: Study finds two ancient ancestries 'reconverged' with settling of South America
May 31, 2018, University of Cambridge
Recent research has suggested that the first people to enter the Americas split into two ancestral branches, the northern and southern, and that the "southern branch" gave rise to all populations in Central and South America.
Now, a study shows for the first time that, deep in their genetic history, the majority—if not all—of the Indigenous peoples of the southern continent retain at least some DNA from the "northern branch": the direct ancestors of many Native communities living today in the Canadian east.
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https://phys.org/news/2018-05-ancient-populations-diverged-reconverged-americas.html#jCp
