Friday, November 22, 2013

UH YEAH, MAYBE THE WHITE MAN DIDN'T STEAL THE AMERICAS FROM THE NATIVE AMERICANS AFTER ALL

Oldest human genome reveals roots of first Americans

  

A 24,000-year-old boy from Siberia is helping redraw the Native American family tree. He is the oldest human to have his genome sequenced, and the results suggest that the first people to colonise the Americas were not simply east Asians. Instead, those early settlers had both western Eurasian and east Asian roots.
The first Americans probably arrived from north-east Asia via a land bridge, around 15,000 years ago. Confusion arose because Native Americans have DNA that resembles that of people in east Asia, but no modern contemporary population exactly fits, says Eske Willerslev of the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.
Plus Native Americans carry some DNA characteristic of modern Europeans, which has led some researchers to suggest that America was first colonised from Europe, not Asia.
Add to this the fact that White Men invented Rap Music, and a lot of resentment is going to fall aside. 


I'm starting to think that, perhaps, we all can get along.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of Bob Dylan.