Earliest known Native American relative

摘要

A MAN who lived in Siberia about 14,000 years ago is the earliest known person in the world to have the mix of genes seen in people with Native American ancestry. He Yu at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, and her colleagues dated a man's fossilised tooth, found near Lake Baikal in Siberia, to about 14,000 years ago. DNA from the tooth revealed that the man had the specific mixture of ancient north Eurasian and north-east Asian ancestry often present in Native American peoples (Cell, doi.org/dwdn).