02-02-2020, 01:43 PM
(02-02-2020, 01:13 PM)Ed Hurst Wrote: Yeah, I used a modified common term (reversing the order of the words), but indigenous folks in North America is what I meant. Their DNA seems to overlap a great deal with Asians, and the farther north you go in America, the more so. The tribes in Alaska all come a lot closer to Asians, and the Inuit more than anyone else.
This makes intuitive sense. I'm thinking one of the factors could be the climate, if the northern North American climate was similar to some of the Asian climates, those populations would settle more there. The ones that moved farther south, where it's warmer, might select for genetic outliers (or groups that were in warmer areas in Asia), that did better there. I dunno.