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Researchers say ancient human fossils found in China belong to an extinct maternal branch of humans which Native Americans may have descended from. The discovery was made by sequencing the genome of the fossils, which are around 14,000 years-old.
Scientists compared the fossils’ genome to that of other people from around the world. The experts found that the bones belonged to an individual whose ancestry appears to have a link to the East Asian origins of Native Americans.
The team says this shows some people in Southeast Asia travelled north along the coast of China through Japan. Eventually, these intrepid humans reached Siberia before crossing the Bering Strait.
