Great article from Wired on the descendants of black freedmen who seek membership in Native American tribes, in part due to the economic gain of membership, with an emphasis on genetic testing to determine whether or not they have Native American ancestry. Of course, as stated in the article by Dr. Tony Frudakis, it is possible for a Greek or Pakistani to show a high proportion of Native American "heritage". Anomalous results such as these would render this avenue of testing almost useless for the purpose of establishing Amerindian descent.
September 02, 2005
Black Indians
Great article from Wired on the descendants of black freedmen who seek membership in Native American tribes, in part due to the economic gain of membership, with an emphasis on genetic testing to determine whether or not they have Native American ancestry. Of course, as stated in the article by Dr. Tony Frudakis, it is possible for a Greek or Pakistani to show a high proportion of Native American "heritage". Anomalous results such as these would render this avenue of testing almost useless for the purpose of establishing Amerindian descent.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Dienekes' Anthropology blog is dedicated to human population genetics, physical anthropology, archaeology, and
history.
Feel free to send e-mail to Dienekes Pontikos, or to visit my other two sites: Anthropological Research Page, and Γενετική των Ελλήνων. You can also follow dienekesp on Twitter.
This work is licensed under a Creative
Commons License. You may cite, quote, or reproduce articles
on this site for non-commercial purposes, provided that you attribute them to Dienekes Pontikos and provide a link
either to the main page of this blog
or to the individual blog entry you are referring to.
0 comments:
Post a Comment