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...boo hoo:

Vikings did not replace Orkney population, concludes DNA study

"Their findings, published in the scientific journal Nature, show that just 25 per cent of the Orcadian DNA was of Norwegian origin, showing “clearly that the Norse Viking invasion (9th century) did not simply replace the indigenous Orkney population.”

The study showed that the UK was divided into 17 genetically distinct clusters of people – three of which are in Orkney."

New genetic study of UK shows 10,000 years of immigration and invasions

Britons’ DNA much more German than Norman, Roman or Viking

The World Just Keeps Getting Murkier And Murkier...

Native American Woman May Have Made It to Europe 500 Years Before Columbus Was Born


American Indian Sailed to Europe With Vikings?

"Five hundred years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue, a Native American woman may have voyaged to Europe with Vikings, according to a provocative new DNA study.

Analyzing a type of DNA passed only from mother to child, scientists found more than 80 living Icelanders with a genetic variation similar to one found mostly in Native Americans.

This signature probably entered Icelandic bloodlines around A.D. 1000, when the first Viking-American Indian child was born, the study authors theorize."

Oops. (Makes sense to me. It's perfectly possible.)

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...human evolution and Neanderthals:


Method Confirms Humans, Neanderthals Interbred


New method confirms humans and Neandertals interbred

My beliefs have been confirmed. I know too many people who look Neanderthalish to believe otherwise.

Previously.

Also previously.

Oh. Oh!!

...A further blow to "the creator put us here" hypothesis.

If you're a subscriber to that thesis, it's getting harder and harder to be taken seriously:

Peopling of North America and 10,000 years on Beringia ridge

"Reports suggest that the people who arrived in this part of the world earliest spent at least 10000 years in areas close to Beringia. There are well dissected reports that suggest that this area was the place that actually connected Asia and Alaska. Other reports suggest that the latest findings support similar conclusions genetic studies a bit early.

The new findings are going to change the perception of how the early peopling in the area took place. The study was actually conducted by Mark Sicoli and Gary Holton of Georgetown University and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Reports suggest that the two spend long years in collecting data on sound systems and word structure from published grammars of a group of languages spoken by Native Americans, called Na-Dene, and the Yeniseian languages of Central Siberia. Now they are pretty sure about the finding."

Native Americans and Russians share the same language: Dialects reveal how ancestors migrated 13,000 years ago

"It's been known for years that some Native Americans and Russians share ancestors, and new research claims to have confirmed this link by discovering they also share language traits."

Pause Is Seen in a Continent’s Peopling

"Using a new method for exploring ancient relationships among languages, linguists have found evidence further illuminating the peopling of North America about 14,000 years ago. Their findings follow a recent proposal that the ancestors of Native Americans were marooned for some 15,000 years on a now sunken plain before they reached North America.

This idea, known as the Beringian standstill hypothesis, has been developed by geneticists and archaeologists over the last seven years. It holds that the ancestors of Native Americans did not trek directly across the land bridge that joined Siberia to Alaska until the end of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago. Rather, geneticists say, these ancestors must have lived in isolation for some 15,000 years to accumulate the amount of DNA mutations now seen specifically in Native Americans."

That DNA is such a pesky thing.

Oh Dear

It's getting harder and harder for "the creator put us here" crowd to stand their ground. Not only that, but they're related to the evil Whiteman:

Surprise’ DNA profile linking 24,000-year-old Siberian skeleton to modern Native Americans could rewrite First Nations’ story, experts say

"The surprise discovery of traces of European ancestry in the 24,000-year-old bones of a boy unearthed in the heart of Siberia has caught the attention of Canadian experts, who say the find could rewrite the story of the people who first populated ancient Canada and the rest of the Americas."

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"The ancient boy’s DNA profile may help explain why a “European” strain of genetic material can be found among today’s New World indigenous communities, a mystery that many scientists had assumed was the result of contact in recent centuries with successive waves of colonizers from Europe."

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