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First Dorset DNA
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:05 pm
by E.P. Grondine
Re: First Dorset DNA
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:20 pm
by 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?
Re: First Dorset DNA
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:49 am
by E.P. Grondine
Rokcet Scientist wrote:
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.)