A new study used the DNA from Native American women in North and South America to show the indigenous population decreased by about half in the centuries following European contact.
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A new study used the DNA from Native American women in North and South America to show the indigenous population decreased by about half in the centuries following European contact.
A new study is shedding some light on a long-debated question about Native Americans. Just how much smaller was the indigenous population in North and South America after the European conquest?
Clues can be found in DNA, according to research conducted at the University of Washington and University of Goettingen in Germany.
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