Moscow, April 3 – AIF-Moscow
Scientists from the University of Adelaide, studied the DNA of several populations of the ancient Indians, proved that the reason for the sharp reduction in America’s population of indigenous peoples was the arrival of Europeans. diseases of the Old World, according to RIA Novosti.
Expert group under the leadership of Bastien Llamas conducted a study “resurrection” of the DNA of Indians, restored fragments of DNA extracted from nearly a hundred Inca mummies and bones of other tribes, natives of America
«Surprisingly, none of us studied the genomes that we found in the remains of over a hundred ancient Indians, did not leave their traces in the DNA of modern Native Americans. The only scenario that corresponds to these observations – the complete disappearance of isolated Indian populations after they began to contact with the Europeans, “- said the scientist
The researchers analyzed the mitochondrial DNA -. A small genome segment, contained in the mitochondria , power plants cells and transmitted, together with these organelles from mother to child. Using fragments of the mitochondrial genome, the experts found that the ancestors of the Indians almost no contact with each other after the original settlement on the New World, breaking up into isolated groups of about 8-9 thousand years ago. In this form, they lasted in fact until the beginning of modern times, after which all the old haplogroup of mitochondrial DNA have completely disappeared.
This result suggests that their vehicles en masse cease to exist killed or disease, or by force.
earlier, a group of scientists from Harvard University, conducted a large-scale study of the remains of Indians of the time of Columbus, I found that most of them died immediately after the coming of the Europeans and their diseases, and about a century after the discovery of the New World.
as it turned out, the extinction did not begin immediately after the conquest of the Old World, and about a hundred years after that. Over the next 60 years the population has decreased by 86%, while the settlements were abandoned.
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