{"id":129078,"date":"2021-10-16T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T18:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/genetics-and-skeletal-biology-debunks-popular-theory-of-native-american-origins"},"modified":"2021-10-16T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T18:22:18","slug":"genetics-and-skeletal-biology-debunks-popular-theory-of-native-american-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/genetics-and-skeletal-biology-debunks-popular-theory-of-native-american-origins","title":{"rendered":"Genetics and Skeletal Biology Debunks Popular Theory of Native American Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetics-and-skeletal-biology-debunks-popular-theory-of-native-american-origins2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Latest scientific findings suggest the ancestral Native American population does not originate in Japan, as believed by many archaeologists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A widely accepted theory of Native American origins coming from Japan has been attacked in a new scientific study, which shows that the genetics and skeletal biology \u201csimply does not match-up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published on October 12 2021, in the peer-reviewed journal <em>PaleoAmerica<\/em>, are likely to have a major impact on how we understand Indigenous Americans\u2019 arrival to the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest scientific findings suggest the ancestral Native American population does not originate in Japan, as believed by many archaeologists. A widely accepted theory of Native American origins coming from Japan has been attacked in a new scientific study, which shows that the genetics and skeletal biology \u201csimply does not match-up.\u201d The findings, published on October [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}