It’s official: Native Americans and Siberians are cousins
Scientists have suspected for a long time that Native Americans are closely related to the peoples of Altai. The theory of the Altai peoples migrating from Siberia across Chukotka and Alaska, down to the Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America, appeared almost a century ago.
Since then researchers have tried to prove this, and in late 2015 the famous Russian geneticist, Oleg Balanovsky, finally confirmed the theory. In addition, Dr. Balanovsky’s studies also proved that some Native Americans have kinship with the indigenous populations of Australia.
“The current study confirms the theory that the Altai peoples are closely related to Native Americans,” said geneticist Valery Ilyinsky at the RAS Institute of General Genetics. ”We now have clear proof, and it is useless to contest it.”
American and Siberian genes
In 2013, two of the world’s leading scientific magazines, Nature, and Science
The first study analyzed 48 people from Brazil. The second study analyzed 31 genomes from peoples in the U.S. and Siberia. Results from both studies confirmed that the ancestors of Native Americans left Siberia about 20,000-30,000 years ago.
After these publications Dr. Balanovsky decided to conduct a larger study, and so he notified international colleagues. They immediately responded to his request.
25,000 DNA samples from 90 nations
In the first stage, scientists analyzed DNA samples from the Russian biobank. “Our biobank contains more than 25,000 samples from representatives of 90 nationalities in Russia and neighboring countries,” Dr. Balanovsky told RBTH.
In the second stage, the DNA was analyzed according to various markers such as the Y chromosome that is inherited from the male line, as well as the mitochondrial DNA that is inherited from the female line, and other chromosomes that are combined from both parents.
As a result, scientists proved beyond a doubt that Native Americans are closely related to the peoples of Altai. But during the study another discovery was made.
“Besides Siberian ancestors, some Native Americans showed a puzzling relation to the indigenous peoples of Australia and Melanesia in the Pacific Ocean,” remarked Dr. Balanovsky. “This is astounding because they are located in an almost opposite part on the planet.”
Land bridge from Asia
Scientists already know how humans traveled to the Americas from Altai. “Instead of the Bering Strait there was a land bridge [30,000 years ago], because during the Ice Age much water was locked in glaciers and the level of the world’s oceans was lower,” Dr. Balanovsky explained.
He added that it’s still not clear whether migration from Australia and Melanesia to the Americas was directly across the ocean, or by going up along the coast and via the Aleutian Islands. Archaeologists continue to study this issue.
See more here: rbth.com
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published in February 2016. The dates given for this migration suggest there were multiple migrations across the Bering Strait at different times, as archaeology shows evidence of human habitation at sites such as Pedra Furada, Cactus Hill and Buttermilk Creek as long as 50-60,000 years ago.
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So can we now stop with the land acknowledgements as the First Nations of Canada were colonializers themselves?
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
“After more than a century of speculation, an international group of geneticists has conclusively proven that the Aztecs, Incas, and Iroquois are closely related to the peoples of Altai, the Siberian region that borders China and Mongolia.”
In ‘The Holy Bible’ (NIV) I read: “The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered of the earth.” (Genesis 9:18, 19). But further on I read: “The sons of Japeth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. The sons of Javan: Elishag, Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim. (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)”. (Genesis 10:2-5)
My point in bring this ancient writing to your attention is the key words: MARITIME PEOPLES. For when the MARITIME PEOPLE of Europe began sailing the oceans of the earth they found aborigine peoples on the small islands of the Pacific and the large island of New Zealand, and the continent of Australia.
So, it is not surprising to me that these modern SCIENTISTS have found these peoples to have been related to each other. So, I consider these modern SCIENTISTS have found evidence that supports what I read in THE HOLY BIBLE.
However, as a scientist I know that this evidence does not PROVE that which I read in the Bible is the TRUTH. So I have to BELIEVE instead of KNOWING!!!
Have a good day, Jerry
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LLOYD
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Printing the term Holy Bible in all capital letters does not mean anything. If you are trying to impress God/First Cause, you are wasting your time.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi LLoyd,
Thank you for your comment!!! For now I know that least one person read my comment.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
A fact is I came to PSI this morning with the following comment for this morning my cousin had forwarded this to me.
“I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching; schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civic classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders.” (John Taylor Gatto, ‘Dumbing US Down, The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education’)
To which I replied to my cousin: John Taylor Gatto doesn’t know that SCHOOLS DO NOT TEACH, THAT ONLY TEACHERS TEACH. And how many teachers know that a quote of Galileo is said to be: “We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.”???
I have read that the first notable TEACHER (of history) WAS SOCRATES. About whom I read and believe that he only asked his students questions and let (expected) them to try to answer his questions. And I read that no one knows what Socrates himself actually knew (thought). And I read that the CITY FATHERS told him he had to die because of what his students were doing to them. But I also read that the CITY FATHERS were compassionate and allowed Socrates to chose how he would die.
I believe history is important because maybe we can learn something from what has happened.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Burns Matkin
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More garbage from the garbage bin of modern “science”. How do they know that the Siberian people crossed over? Why isn’t it the N. American people went the other way?
I remember when the Ice Age was 200,000 years ago then 100,000 and now between 10 and 30,000 years ago. Next thing you’ll find out is that the Chippewa and Lakota are Frenchmen.
I’m really getting tired of story telling being called “Science”.
Even if the gnome matches, it really doesn’t explain anything other than the genome matches.
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Andy
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If you choose not to believe what PSI posts that’s fine. There are plenty of other websites you could look at if this one displeases you so much.
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