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People from North America moved into South America in at least three migration waves, researchers report online November 8 in Cell. The first migrants, who reached South America by at least 11,000 years ago, were genetically related to a 12,600-year-old toddler from Montana known as Anzick-1 (SN: 3/22/14, p. 6). The child's skeleton was found with artifacts from the Clovis people, who researchers used to think were the first people in the Americas, although that idea has fallen out of favor. Scientists also previously thought these were the only ancient migrants to South America.
But DNA analysis of samples from 49 ancient people suggests a second wave of settlers replaced the Clovis group in South America about 9,000 years ago. And a third group related to ancient people from California's Channel Islands spread over the Central Andes about 4,200 years ago, geneticist Nathan Nakatsuka of Harvard University and colleagues found.
One mystery produced by the research was genetic markers were found in remains in Brazil that are shared with Australian Aborigines, but by no remains found between them in the Americas.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @10:21PM
It's called the Holy Roman Empire for a reason; it's called the Roman Catholic Church for a reason.
Christianity became a thing when the Emperor of Rome seized it as a tool for unifying the otherwise disparate religions of the Empire; it satisfied the legalistic fanaticism of the Jews, and the myths of the many Roman sects, and the holidays and practices of the Pagans of Europe, and bound it all together in the pomp and circumstance of the Roman Empire, all of which was increasingly colored by Medieval European culture and then Enlightenment European culture, followed by puritanical/evangelical American culture.
You'd have to be insane to attribute all of that to "some Arab".
Jesus is an idea, one that turns out to be best represented by a handsome, peaceful, kind, blue-eyed European who tells you to be good and pay Caesar what is Caesars.