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Is Russia the Birthplace of Native Americans?
from National Geographic News
Native Americans originated from a small mountainous region in southern Siberia, new genetic research shows. The work is the most targeted study yet to
suggest a genetic "homeland" for North America's indigenous peoples, according to the authors.
New DNA analysis of ethnic groups living in the Altay Mountains revealed a unique genetic mutation that also occurs in modern-day northern Native
Americans.
A possible link between Siberians and Native Americans is an "age-old question" that was first raised by European explorers in the New World, said study
leader Theodore Schurr, an anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. That's because some of those early explorers had also been to
Asia, and they noticed physical similarities between the two populations.
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