Case Study: The Native Americans Really Discovered America

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Carmelina Gorski
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October 15, 2015
Amazing Race #5 The Native Americans really discovered America. Many credit Christopher Columbus, but the Native Americans were there first. Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover America. New research is turning a centuries-old hypothesis about Native Americans’ origins on its head. A team of geneticists and anthropologists published an article on Tuesday that traces Native Americans to a single group that settled in what’s now America far later than what scientists previously thought. The researchers looked at sequenced DNA from bones as well as the sequenced genomes of Native American volunteers with heritage from not only the Americas but also Siberia and Oceania, according to Rasmus

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