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Some of the first humans in the Americas came from China, study finds


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Some of the first humans to arrive in the Americas included people from what is now China, who arrived in two distinct migrations during and after the last ice age, a new genetics study has found.

“Our findings indicate that besides the previously indicated ancestral sources of Native Americans in Siberia, the northern coastal China also served as a genetic reservoir contributing to the gene pool,” said Yu-Chun Li, one of the report authors.

Li added that during the second migration, the same lineage of people settled in Japan, which could help explain similarities in prehistoric arrowheads and spears found in the Americas, China and Japan.

It was once believed that ancient Siberians who crossed over a land bridge that existed in the Bering Strait linking modern Russia and Alaska were the sole ancestors of Native Americans.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/09/prehistoric-migrations-china-americas

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What's the odds that China will use that as the basis for a territorial claim?

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8 hours ago, psyche101 said:

As far as I know DNA evidence does not support the multi regional hypothesis.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/we-are-all-africans

The article is talking about the genetic origins of the NA, Jurchen, certain Korean groups and Jomon who do have common ancestors. Not the "Out of Asia" hypothesis. 

Little Ninja's Korean father and I both have the "Clovis gene". 

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21 minutes ago, Piney said:

The article is talking about the genetic origins of the NA, Jurchen, certain Korean groups and Jomon who do have common ancestors. Not the "Out of Asia" hypothesis. 

Little Ninja's Korean father and I both have the "Clovis gene". 

Ahh thanks mate :tu:

That makes much more sense.

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