Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA Discovered in Ancient South Americans

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[–]jet199Instigatrix 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I really don't understand the reason Native Americans (mostly in the USA) are so attached to the single immigration theory. If all these people came over from both directions thousands of years ago then how does it effect their claims of being the original people at all? Or maybe it is just an anti-white thing.

The fact is that peoples who live on ice sheets thrive best on the ice and suffer hardship in the summer. It makes total sense that during the last ice age they would have travelled out to sea along the Atlantic ice sheet to hunt and fish rather than starve on land.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is just an anti white thing.

Assuming our civilization is not at its peak, we all don’t die in a nuclear fire: some scientist that is actually competent will come out with definitive proof that the “we all come from Africa” thing is bull shit.

They don’t have a fucking clue what their talking about.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Europeans followed game along the ice to North America during the last ice age, but failed to remain or died out.

https://insider.si.edu/2012/03/ice-age-mariners-from-europe-were-the-first-people-to-reach-north-america/

Also, one theory is that humans migrated from the Middle East through Aisa Minor, north into Asia, and then circled back into Europe.

https://popular-archaeology.com/article/a-research-framework-for-tracing-human-migration-events-after-out-of-africa-origins/

[–]cisheteroscum 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I would expect this finding to be unsurprising since Amerindians are the descendanta of proto-Siberians and Asians have traces of Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA

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The surprising part is they found skeletons with Papuan DNA that do not seem to have migrated via the Bering strait

[–]cisheteroscum 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ah makes sense