First Dorset DNA

[E.P. Grondine]

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4 ... 08835.html

Remarkable

[Rokcet Scientist]

Wow! Imagine that: 353,151 high-confidence single-nucleotide polymorphisms! Makes me want to dance! Now all the evils of the world will surely fade into oblivion...

But, seriously, does that mean that that individual was part of a 'non-starter' race, or subrace of early holocene siberian proto asians, but was not related to the branch(es?)/wave(s?) that the present day native Americans (a.k.a. 'first nations', afaik) and Inuit descend from?

[E.P. Grondine]

But, seriously, does that mean that that individual was part of a 'non-starter' race, or subrace of early holocene siberian proto asians, but was not related to the branch(es?)/wave(s?) that the present day native Americans (a.k.a. 'first nations', afaik) and Inuit descend from?

Dorset were extincted by disease introduced by Norse, which also spread to southern populations. It's in the book, as people sometimes say (the book being "Man and Impact in the Americas", but just the southern spread of the disease.)