DNA evidence says first Americans came from Asia

DNA EVIDENCE SAYS FIRST AMERICANS CAME FROM ASIA Natives Americans are believed to have descended from Asian people who arrived in North America via the Bering Strait. The DNA of ancient American bog people is closer to the Japanese than Americans. Glenn Hodges wrote in National Geographic: “In recent years geneticists have compared the DNA of modern Native Americans with that of other populations around the world and concluded that the ancestors of Native Americans were Asians who separated from other Asian populations and remained isolated for about 10,000 years, based on mutation rates in human DNA. During that time they developed unique genetic signatures that only Native Americans currently possess. [Source: Glenn Hodges, National Geographic, January 2015 /~] “These genetic markers have been found not only in the DNA recovered from Naia’s skeleton” from Hoyo Negro, Mexico “ but also in the remains of a child buried some 12,600 years ago in western Montana, on a piece of land no ... Read full article.