re: Feb 29, 1504. Columbus Plays Dirty Trick on Indians

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You aren't more correct than anyone else. Were Europeans savage? Yes. Were the inhabitants of this unnamed continent savage? Also, yes.

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A Danish-led international research team has mapped the hitherto oldest genome of an anatomically modern human: the genome of a boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in south-central Siberia some 24,000 years ago.

Surprisingly, the genetic material reveals that the boy was European, which means that a European culture reached all the way east to Lake Baikal.

The really sensational news, however, is that a large proportion (about a third) of all living Native Americans are descendants of the Mal’ta people. In other words, Native Americans have partly European ancestry.

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