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Gene Study Supports Single Bering Strait Migration
Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "One of the most comprehensive analyses of genetic variation ever undertaken supports the theory that the ancestors of modern native peoples throughout the Americas came from a single source in East Asia across a northwest land bridge some 12,000 years ago. One particular discovery is of a 'unique genetic variant widespread in natives across both continents — suggesting that the first humans in the Americas came in a single migration or multiple waves from a single source, not in waves of migrations from different sources.' The full article is available online from PLoS."
Probably I'll get modded troll or off-topic by some of the short-sighted with accounts here.
Time for me to re-read "1421: The Year China Discovered America".
From the book, the word "America" is based on a Chinese word "Americ" (I have to surf or reread for it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=word+america+origins+in+chinese&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
)
My own commentary below...
Columbus' poor-navigating landed him here (with the aid of dubiously-obtained (hint: stolen/misappropriated) maps originating FROM/IN China), and proclaiming he'd found Indians (he WAS trying to get to India...)
Also, relatively recent evidence (in the 70's/80's) a junk (Chinese in origin) was found buried in silt in the SF Bay Area (Sacramento River?) when someone investigated glass beads they sucked up into a tube. Found out the beads originated from China. Samples of the hull wood indicated non-English/Portuguese/other European vessel. Various tombstones and observatories and obelisks also of Chinese origin, along with numerous "Native Americans" having Chinese clothing, tribal, cooking and artistic attributes known to have Chinese characteristics, further indicated 1420's era Chinese landed here, not by ACCIDENT, but by DESIGN.
Yes, like Europeans, Chinese sailors inadvertently passed/carried diseases, which in the case of Chinese, wiped out 10,000s of Natives. However, the difference is the Chinese didn't come here to STAY, invade, expurgate, demolish, or hijack an existing, thriving human ecosystem (competitive and warring, true), nor to subject the Natives.
That alone speaks VOLUMES about wisdom, humility, and more.
Sorry, but history in the US is so full of shit, and it's tragic that this is NOT being taught to inspire respect, humility, and more in modern US citizens who will have to deal with the morass we and our so-called leaders have gotten this country into time after time.
Returning to the book:
Sadly, too, it seems Australia at the behest of the US and UK/Britain, erected a shield of environmental or national preservation laws to stymie Gavin Menzies and the world's researchers from diving or going close to reefs and wrecks that would likely further the evidence that Chinese even were all over what became called Australia.
Something I read in this AM's news:
However, I suppose to its credit, Australia's government is going to formally apologize to the Aborigines. Hopefully, Australia's new government will demolish the pugnacious stymie law and the body of information allowed to continue additions to 1421's story.
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Perhaps you're right, the public education is bad, you can't even use the word except correctly. Did you intend to use accept?