DNA findings trigger revision

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http://www.denverpost.com/extremes/ci_7619802

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stared down a growing mountain of scientific evidence, and church leaders blinked.

They have made a one-word change to the introduction to the Book of Mormon, a passage that called a lost tribe of Israel the principal ancestors of American Indians.

It now says the Israelites are among the ancestors of American Indians.

Observers are buzzing about the church's apparent accommodation of extensive DNA evidence that American Indians descended from Asian peoples.




http://www.mywire.com/pubs/AFP/2007/11/27/5042637

Gene study suggests Native Americans came from Siberia

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A US genetic study bolsters claims that Native Americans are descended from one migrant group that crossed a lost land link from modern Siberia to Alaska -- not waves of arrivals from Asia, as rival theories say.

The new study by the University of Michigan, published Monday, examined genes of indigenous people from North to South America and from two Siberian groups, the university said in a report introducing the research.

Analysis found one unique genetic variant widespread across both the northern and southern American continents -- suggesting that all Native Americans were descended from a single group, not various ones as the rival theory holds.

This variant "has not been found in genetic studies of people elsewhere in the world except eastern Siberia," the report said.

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1. I think history has told us that for a hell of along time.

There was a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska and the Eskimos and other peoples crossed it to America...they also proved that the shelf along the California, Washington and Oregon coast was more extensive thousands of years ago. And that they have found artifacts along this shelf suggesting this migration.....gee one more thing WE PEOPLE WHO LISTENED IN ANCIENT AND AMERICAN HISTORY LEARNED. In the 1940's yet.

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2. Reminds me of how Coca-cola was taboo for Mormons until the

LDS church invested beaucoup bucks in the company (or a bottler) and then, miracle of miracles, the head honcho in the church had a "revelation" that it was ok to drink Coke.

Also reminds me of how blacks were forbidden to be a part of the Mormon priesthood (which ALL adult males are automatically included in) until sometime in the 80s, or whenever it was that God succumbed to civil rights pressure and gave the head honcho a "revelation" that blacks were not subhuman/evil/Satan's spawn and could be included.