The Americas
may have been initially settled in two different migrations, a new method for
tracing human ancestry reveals. The analysis also suggests populations in the
Orkney Islands, a string of islands north of Scotland, share substantial common
ancestry with northern Siberian populations.
COUSINS? The Yakut people (left) of northern Siberia share some common ancestry with Orcadians (right), people who inhabit the Orkney Islands north of Scotland.
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