Evidencia genética de dos poblaciones fundadoras de las Américas

Pontus Skoglund1,2, Swapan Mallick1,2,3, Maria Cátira Bortolini4

  • 1Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

Nature
|July 22, 2015
PubMed
Resumen

La investigación genética revela que algunos nativos americanos amazónicos tienen ascendencia vinculada a los australianos, lo que sugiere diversas poblaciones fundadoras en las Américas más allá de la comprensión previa.

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