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From: "Richard D. Reddick" <>
Subject: [DNA] American Indian studies slowly happening
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 07:27:13 -0800
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Researchers:

Posting the actual article from the October 1999 National Geographic magazine.
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American "Adam" Left a Genetic Marker
Sometime after humans came to the Western Hemisphere, 15,000 to 20,000
years ago, an extraordinary rare genetic mutation occurred in one man who
sired a son. The result was that the son's Y chromosome, usually an exact
copy, varied ever so slightly from the father's.
Now DNA research shows that the son became a native American "Adam." Some
90 percent of South American's indigenous people and 50 percent of those in
North America share that genetic marker, unknown in other male populations.
"You can be from the Great Plains or from the Amazonian rain forest and
have the marker," says Peter Underhill of Stanford University, whose
population-defining work has been confirmed recently by other scientific
teams. "They're from different ethnic groups, have different cultures, and
speak different languages, but they share that common male ancestor."
[Text by Boris Weintraub]

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For those of us following our American Indian trails recommend following
this and other related history-changing research as it unfolds.

One other piece to the speculative puzzle as they sort out and try to
analyze via DNA research the early civilizations on the American continents.
It was indicated the compilation of the results of these studies will take
a number of years as scientists sort out and come to some sort of
agreement. Or agree not to agree.

Ongoing American Indian language analysis continues to unfold with
interesting and conflicting results now.

You may wish to post this to other forums, family and friends, keep watch,
encourage discussion. Appreciate your opinions and suggestions. Anyone
following Smithsonian's coverage, if any?

In the meantime please share other items you see on this subject, for these
may be significant (cumulatively). Think there is coming a time to
edit/rewrite/correct our own genealogy and American history books?

Richard


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