https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180221131851.htm

A couple of nuggets:

"This ancient DNA finding also explains the "strange result" of a genetic connection that had been hinted at in the genomes of modern-day Europeans and Native Americans, adds Chicago's Novembre. The link is evidence from people who lived in Siberia 24,000 years ago, whose telltale DNA is found both in Native Americans, and in the Yamnaya steppe populations and their European descendants."

"His group showed that the petrous bone, containing the tiny inner ear, harbors 100 times more DNA than other ancient human remains, offering a huge increase in the amount of genetic material available for analysis."

Cool!

>>This ancient DNA finding also explains the "strange result" of a genetic connection that had been hinted at in the genomes of modern-day Europeans and Native Americans, adds Chicago's Novembre. The link is evidence from people who lived in Siberia 24,000 years ago, whose telltale DNA is found both in Native Americans, and in the Yamnaya steppe populations and their European descendants.

The simple explanation for that one is a population "split" sometime after the 24,000 year old remains were sequenced (to a lot of hype, fanfare, and misanalysis by many, including LDS apologists who conveniently ignored the timetable. Jaredites from two-and-half millennia B.C.E. anyone?). One group moved east, joining with another and they became the people that migrated into the Western hemisphere via the Beringia land bridge.

http://simonsoutherton.blogspot.com/2016/02/response-to-claim-13-of-native-american.html

>>The paper would have gone unnoticed by Mormons had a National Geographic journalist not sensationalised it with the following hyperbole.

"Great Surprise"—Native Americans Have West Eurasian Origins."

This is noteworthy...

>>Since then, the number of ancient humans whose DNA Reich has analyzed has risen exponentially. His lab has generated about three-quarters of the world's published data and, included unpublished data, has now reached 3,700 genomes. "Every time we jump an order of magnitude in the number of individuals, we can answer questions that we couldn't even have asked before," says Reich.

>>Now, with hundreds of thousands of ancient skeletons (and their petrous bones) still to be analyzed, the field of ancient DNA is poised to both pin down current questions and tackle new ones.

I'm doubtful of that figure of "hundreds of thousands of ancient skeletons," incidentally, as far as human remains older than six or seven thousand years.

And a note to all the "Ancestry.com" wannabes who get their dander up and try to use modern DNA testing (which is useful in identifying relationships of the past one or two hundred years) to extrapolate ancient migrations... Fuggetaboutit... The difference is on the order of 5-15,000 years...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/2018 12:27PM by SL Cabbie.

"...ancient humans whose DNA Reich has analyzed has risen exponentially."

'DNA Reich'--a punk band name if there ever was one.


Anyway, I think this is what I was trying explain in the other thread, that Kennewick Man displayed slightly different facial features than would be expected.