Posted on 02/11/2010 8:24:26 AM PST by FredJake
WASHINGTON (Reuters) –
Scientists have sequenced the DNA from four frozen hairs of a Greenlander who died 4,000 years ago in a study they say takes genetic technology into several new realms.
Surprisingly, the long-dead man appears to have originated in Siberia and is unrelated to modern Greenlanders, Morten Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues found.
"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.
Not only can the findings help transform the study of archeology, but they can help answer questions about the origins of modern populations and disease, they said.
"Such studies have the potential to reconstruct not only our genetic and geographical origins, but also what our ancestors looked like," David Lambert and Leon Huynen of Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, wrote in a commentary.
The DNA gives strong hints about the man, nicknamed Inuk. "Brown eyes, brown skin, he had shovel-form front teeth," Eske Willerslev, who oversaw the study, told a telephone briefing. Such teeth are characteristic of East Asian and Native American populations.
He had the genes for early hair loss, too. "Because we found quite a lot of hair from this guy, we presume he actually died quite young," Willerslev said.
The man lived among the Saqqaq people, the earliest known culture in southern Greenland that lasted from around 2500 BC until about 800 BC.
Scientists have disagreed on who these people were -- whether they descended from the peoples who crossed the Bering Strait
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Was there a vault copy of a birth certificate?
And I still say that they could have, tens of thousands of years ago, just as easily have gone FROM NA up and over TO Europe/Asia.
We forget that the horse and the camel, for two examples, originated in NA. So how did they end up across the ocean, where most of us think they are ‘from”?
I have often wondered how it is that N. American fauna prior to the arrival of humans, was almost exactly like that of the African velt—rhinos, elephants, crocs, lions, cheetah, wild donkeys, horses, etc., when according to theory, S. America separated from that continent later than N. America, and S. America had a vastly different fauna.
FWIW, I count myself neither in the Fundy camp (who are just SURE the world can't be much more than 12,000 years old; 6,000 years to create; 6,000 years of recorded human history), nor do I count myself in the scientific camp, who are equally sure that God or any form of Intelligent Design had nothing to do with creating the earth.
Carbon 14 dating, while provable and scientifically sound, for instance, when compared with objects of known antiquity, cannot be proven when we move from thousands and tens of thousands of year measurements into the hundreds of thousands and millions of year measurements.
Probably just an isolated incident, he went off course. And they called him “Wrong Way Cro-Magnon!”
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You made my morning, thanks.
CAN YOU HAIR ME NOW?
Migration across the Bering land bridge is evident from fossil finds. Likewise, the rise of the Panama isthmus a few million years ago allowed the interchange of fauna from North ans South America to intermingle (the “Great American Interchange”).
Berengia
LOL! Good one.
Cool!
Not necessarily so.
Assuming that the magnetic north pole was around 80 degrees north, it’s possible that sailing in the Gulf of Okhosk would show the pole star as slightly in the south. Magnetic deviation there is about -10 from true.
It would be enough to sail north of Japan to acheive this effect.
They’re trying to imply that the siberians walked accross the bering strait and then across canada and then across to greenland.
I say that’s silly. the shortest route would be to walk north from siberia over the north pole and then south to greenland.
Looks like a chinese joe dirt to me.
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