{"id":2898,"date":"2014-08-28T14:05:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2014-08-28T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T14:50:09","slug":"genetic-studies-trace-shifting-populations-in-canadas-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/genetic-studies-trace-shifting-populations-in-canadas-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic studies trace shifting populations in Canada\u2019s Arctic<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new genetic study has clarified the relationships between the ancient and modern cultures in Canada\u2019s Arctic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The results confirm that a single group &#8211; known as Paleo-Eskimo &#8211; arrived around 3000 BCE and disappeared around 1300 CE when a new group arrived from northern Alaska, the ancestors of today\u2019s Inuit. Genetic information shows that there was very little intermixing between the two groups. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another important finding was that a major shift in technology, habitation and art styles that occurred around 500 BC was a result of innovation within Paleo-Eskimo culture, rather than evidence of the arrival of another group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>Science\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 28, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen,\u00a0Denmark<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Max Friesen, University of Toronto, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new genetic study has clarified the relationships between the ancient and modern cultures in Canada\u2019s Arctic. The results confirm that a single group &#8211; known as Paleo-Eskimo &#8211; arrived around 3000 BCE and disappeared around 1300 CE when a new group arrived from northern Alaska, the ancestors of today\u2019s Inuit. Genetic information shows that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1851,1274,917,909,50],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-anthropology","tag-dna","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-KK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}