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"},"content":{"rendered":"In the first population-level nuclear DNA analysis of a Native American group from ancient to modern times, the ancient genomes of coastal British Columbia\u2019s and Alaska\u2019s Tsimshian First Nations reveal that, 6,000 years ago, their population was\u00a0slowly and\u00a0steadily declining. The findings contradict popular belief\u00a0that, after ancestors of today’s Indigenous\u00a0North Americans crossed over the Bering Strait, their populations grew until Europeans made contact.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Original paper<\/a> published April 30, 2018 In the first population-level nuclear DNA analysis of a Native American group from ancient to modern times, the ancient genomes of coastal British Columbia\u2019s and Alaska\u2019s Tsimshian First Nations reveal that, 6,000 years ago, their population was\u00a0slowly and\u00a0steadily declining. The findings contradict popular belief\u00a0that, after ancestors of today’s Indigenous\u00a0North Americans crossed over the Bering Strait, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"class_list":["post-6069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1zT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLead author: <\/strong>John Lindo, Emory University – john.lindo@emory.edu<\/a>; Canadian coauthors: <\/strong>David Archer, Northwestern Community College, Prince Rupert – darcher@nwcc.bc.ca<\/a>;\u00a0Jerome Cybulski, Western University –\u00a0jcybuls@uwo.ca<\/a>;\u00a0Joycelynn Mitchell, Metlakatla Treaty Office, Prince Rupert –\u00a0jmitchell@metlakatla.ca<\/a>; Barbara Petzelt, Metlakatla Treaty Office, Prince Rupert –\u00a0metlch@metlakatla.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"