Do Native Americans Descend From One Group?
For decades it’s been thought that Native Americans could have descended from one migrant group that crossed a lost land link from Siberia to Alaska, and now a University of Michigan genetic study bolsters those claims, reports AFP. The university’s 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. “If there were a large number of migrations, and most of the source groups didn’t have the variant, then we would not see the widespread presence of the mutation in the Americas,” said Noah Rosenberg, a geneticist who worked on the study. Latino Group Criticizes NYPD The National Latino Officers Association of America (NLOAA) is criticizing the RAND Corp, a nonpartisan research group, for alleging that the New York Police Department’s “stop-and-frisk” policy, which stopped more than 500,000 pedestrians last year, mo
