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SUBMITTER: Skoglund P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4982469 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature 20150721 7567
Genetic studies have consistently indicated a single common origin of Native American groups from Central and South America. However, some morphological studies have suggested a more complex picture, whereby the northeast Asian affinities of present-day Native Americans contrast with a distinctive morphology seen in some of the earliest American skeletons, which share traits with present-day Australasians (indigenous groups in Australia, Melanesia, and island Southeast Asia). Here we analyse gen ...[more]