Native Americans Descended From a Single Ancestral Group, DNA Study Confirms
5/19/2009 at 7:24 PM
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu:80/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9101
For two decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or successive waves, or from one ancestral Asian population or a number of different populations.
Now, after painstakingly comparing DNA samples from people in dozens of modern-day Native American and Eurasian groups, an international team of scientists thinks it can put the matter to rest: Virtually without exception the new evidence supports the single ancestral population theory.
An interesting read.