A Skeleton Clue to Early American Ancestry (11 of 13) (VIDEO)
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Researchers detailed their analysis of the oldest, most complete, genetically intact human skeleton discovered in the New World in a paper published today in the journal Science. This project was led by the Mexican government's National Institute of Anthropology and History and supported by the National Geographic Society. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the May 16, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by James C. Chatters at Applied Paleoscience and DirectAMS in Bothell, Wash., and colleagues was titled, "Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native-Americans."
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