{"id":26084,"date":"2010-07-26T08:10:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T08:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/10000-years-ago-there-were-no-%e2%80%9csoutheast-asians%e2%80%9d-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2010-07-26T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T08:10:22","slug":"10000-years-ago-there-were-no-%e2%80%9csoutheast-asians%e2%80%9d-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/10000-years-ago-there-were-no-%e2%80%9csoutheast-asians%e2%80%9d-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"10,000 years ago there were no \u201cSoutheast Asians\u201d | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MexicoMexico: Ancient woman suggests diverse migration<\/a>:<\/p>

A scientific reconstruction of one of the oldest sets of human remains found in the Americas appears to support theories that the first people who came to the hemisphere migrated from a broader area than once thought, researchers say.
Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History on Thursday released photos of the reconstructed image of a woman who probably lived on Mexico’s Caribbean coast 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. She peeks out of the picture as a short, spry-looking woman with slightly graying hair.<\/p>

Anthropologists had long believed humans migrated to the Americas in a relatively short period from a limited area in northeast Asia across a temporary land corridor that opened across the Bering Strait during an ice age.<\/p>

But government archaeologist Alejandro Terrazas says the picture has now become more complicated, because the reconstruction more resembles people from southeastern Asian areas like Indonesia.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>

I think this gets at the fallacy:<\/p>

But Gillespie cautioned against comparing a reconstructed face from 10,000 years ago to modern populations in places like Indonesia, which have also probably changed over 10 millennia.<\/p>

“You have to find skeletons of the same time period in Asia, or use genetic reconstructions, to make a strong connection, and cannot rely on modern populations<\/strong>,” she wrote. “Do we have any empirical data on what Southeast Asian women looked like … 10,000 years ago?”<\/p><\/blockquote>

A few years ago some scholars asserted that Kennewick Man<\/a> resembled “South Asians.” I’m open to the possibility of a more complex peopling of the Americas, but until we get ancient DNA (something that is very difficult in the USA<\/a>), it seems rather strange to make assessments of phylogenetic descent based on phenotypic similarities between one ancient specimen and modern populations.<\/p>

Image Credit: AP Photo\/ Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History<\/em><\/p>

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