America's native son

• Autores: Catherine Brahic
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2956, 2014, págs. 8-10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People may never know who the Anzick child was; why he died, just 3 years old, in the foothills of the American Rockies; why he was buried, 12,600 years ago, beneath a huge cache of sharpened flints; or why his kin left him with a bone tool that had been passed down the generations for 150 years. One thing, however, is certain: his afterlife is anything but ordinary. Geneticists announced that the boy is the earliest ancient American to have his entire genome sequenced. Incredibly, he turns out to be a direct ancestor of most tribes in Central and South America--and probably the US too--as well as a very close cousin of Canadian tribes.