New World Had at Least 15 'Founding Mothers' Says Latest Study from Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation and University of Pavia, Italy

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An international team of genetic scientists has discovered the ancestors of Native Americans had at least 15 unique maternal genetic lines, many more “founding mothers” than had been expected for the Paleo-Indians who initially immigrated into the unpeopled, resource-rich Western Hemisphere 15-18,000 years ago.

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