FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE HAVE DNA PROOF
EUROPEANS PUSHED ENTIRE LINEAGES
OF NATIVES TO EXTINCTION
By Justin Gardner
Reprinted with Permission
The first genetic study conducted on the peopling
of the Americas has confirmed a truth not found
in public school history books — European
colonization wiped out Native American populations to extinction.
The University of Adelaide’s Australian Centre for
Ancient DNA (ACAD) analyzed the DNA of
pre-Columbian mummies and skeletons to
reconstruct a genetic history. There is a “striking
absence” of those genetic lineages in modern
Native Americans, pointing to an extinction event
that coincides with the European arrival.
“Surprisingly, none of the genetic lineages we
found in almost 100 ancient humans were
present, or showed evidence of descendants, in
today’s Indigenous populations,” says joint lead
author Dr. Bastien Llamas, Senior Research
Associate with ACAD. “This separation appears
to have been established as early as 9000 years ago
and was completely unexpected, so we examined
many demographic scenarios to try and explain
the pattern.”
“The only scenario that fit our observations was
that shortly after the initial colonisation, populations were established that subsequently stayed
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