Ancient Greenland gene map has a surprise

Yahoo News ^ | 2/11/10 | y Maggie Fox,

[OneVike]

Ancient man Ping!

Very interesting DNA story about 4000 year old human that they did a gentic code break down on.

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[a fool in paradise]

So you can be called a “native” if you immigrated here 5,000 years ago?

[randog]

He looks like he was really into Death Metal.

[Carry_Okie]

A civil blam.

[brytlea]

It appears ancient people were more mobile than we thought.

[OneVike]

So you can be called a “native” if you immigrated here 5,000 years ago?

Looks like that. I am guessing the cut off to being a native is about 1492.

Anyone after is a foreign invader. Unless you are of a minority status.

Of course once the majority becomes a minority then the rules will change I am sure.

[aruanan]

Ancient Greenland gene map has a surprise

Ancient Greenland was part of Atzlan?

[Adder]

A genome map wasn’t all he needed....He apparently had the gene for getting lost...thats a heckuva trip from Siberia to Greenland.

[AFPhys]

Yet another piece of evidence that suggests the Arctic Ocean has been ice-free in the past.

Marco Polo wrote that he sailed to a spot on the ocean around 1200AD where he saw “the pole star in the south”. Since he also used a crude magnetic compass, and assuming* that magnetic north at that time was somewhere near its current position, that means that he sailed an ice-free Arctic Ocean almost to Greenland. This is quite possible, in my view, since Earth’s temperature then was several degrees warmer than current “high” temperatures.

*admittedly a somewhat shaky assumption

[Free State Four]

He apparently had the gene for getting lost...

His wife kept begging him to pull over and ask for directions, but noooooooo.......

[Joya]

Thanks. Ping.

[Paladin2]

It’s not too surprising that North America has had more than one group migrate in from outside of NA. This process continues today.

[Vigilanteman]

According to Genesis 10:25, the trip might have been a lot easier before the continents were divided.

[Larry Lucido]

Green genes?

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Yet another piece of evidence that suggests the Arctic Ocean has been ice-free in the past.

Yes indeed... and we would not have had the rumors of the famed "Northwest Passage" either, unless it was warmer and people were able to get through... :-)

[Star Traveler]

Yes..., very interesting...

[sig226]

I’d love to know how this guy got to Greenland.

[GL of Sector 2814]

According to Genesis 10:25, the trip might have been a lot easier before the continents were divided.

Gondwana started breaking up in the mid-Jurassic, about 167 million years ago. That's a wee bit early for the gent we're speaking of from 2,000 BCE.

[sten]

ummm... greenland is in the new world??