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Russia: Native Americans Originate From The Motherland

Anthropologists from Russia have discovered that Native Americans originated from Russia approximately twenty thousand years ago.  The latest study conducted by a team of American and Russian scientists found that the descendants of the North American Indians who lived 5,000 years ago are still alive today. Pravdareport.com reports: This conclusion was made by researchers after comparing the DNA of fossils found on the northern coast of British Columbia in Canada and the living people who belong to the first several tribes from this area. This discovery marks a very important step in the study of Indians, as scientists previously had only a trace of their ancestors. According to genetic research conducted by the University of Michigan, the ancestors of today’s Indians and Eskimos moved to America from northeast Asia through the so-called “Bering Bridge,” an ancient wide strip between America and Asia on the Bering Strait that disappeared over 12,000 years ago. In turn, an international team of researchers that included members of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics with the Russian Academy of Sciences concluded that the genetic home of the first Americans was Altai. Approximately 20-25 thousand years ago, according to the scientists, the ancestors of the Indians came from [...]

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