Modern day native people in Brazil have traces of Australasian DNA, raising new questions about how and when the first Americans arrived. ByPallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News Two separate ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient skeleton found nearly 20 years ago in a river in Washington is related to Native Americans, says a DNA study that could help resolve a long-running dispute over its ancestry ...

A long-held theory about the earliest migration to the Americas is under fresh scientific fire. For years, many believed that the First Peoples came from Japan, tracing their ancestry to the Jomon, a ...

According to the 23andMe DNA-testing service, I have 0.1 percent West African DNA from my mother. I also have approximately 5-6 percent Native American from my mother, who is now deceased. I have a ...

Reviving race science plays into centuries of oppression. A group from the Saginaw Chippewa Reservation in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, gathers with hundreds of protesters near the Standing Rock Sioux ...

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