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Thread #148955   Message #3463640
Posted By: pdq
09-Jan-13 - 01:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: Native North Americans protest
Subject: RE: BS: Native North Americans protest
"I am working from something I saw about the land bridge some time ago and if it has been disproved since I am happy to accept new evidence. I thought there were some DNA links as well though?"


Trouble is, few anthropologists agree on anything, and no two of them agree on everything.

The Land bridge through the Bering Straits is based on the idea that the Ice Age reduced the sea level enough to expose the land. Trouble is that the people would have found a continent covered with massive sheets of ice. Why come here?

Humans are basically hairless. Since most characteristics are survival traits, who could believe that humans are not originally from a moderate or tropical region?

DNA studies have advanced so fast in the last 20 years that it makes one's head spin.

Right now, the best DNA experts say that the America's native peoples fall into 5 reasonably distinct groups. One of the groups is basically Caucasian. None is Negroid.

There is a growing feeling that the primary migration in South America was from the Pacific islands by a group that does not currently exist. They were Proto-Australioid.

No American remains found (so far I know) are older than 14,000 years.

They migration has been steady and continuous for a long time and from several continents. Actually, it's still going strong.