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Article: Common origin cited for American Indians.
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- Science News
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- August 4, 1990
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Common origin cited for American Indians
The vast majority of American Indians most likely descended from a single migrating population from Asia, biochemist Douglas C. Wallace told a scientific gathering last week in Bar Harbor, Maine.
With that assertion, Wallace enters the long-running debate over who first settled in the New World. Much recent attention has focused on the linguistic research of Stanford University's Joseph Greenberg, who argues that Native American languages fall into three groups that descended from one ancestral tongue (SN: 6/9/90, p.360).
"Our findings support Greenberg's hypothesis," Wallace told SCIENCE NEWS. "If we go ...