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This was very interesting to me. I had read somewhere that a possible path that Lehi and his group took was to the East. I am not sure about the dating of the body, but it does have interesting connotations as to the relationship between the Native Americans and other groups.

<u>24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians</u>

The genome of a boy indicates that Europeans reached farther east across Eurasia than previously assumed, and that Native Americans may be descended from a mix of Western Europeans and East Asians.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/scien ... beria.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It is interesting.

I hope someone who understands DNA better than me can explain whether or not this has anything to do with Lehi's group, or Mahonri Moriancumr's group for that matter. This bone is from a guy/gal who lived about 18,000 years before Adam and Eve got kicked out of Missouri.

I would guess coming across the Beringia land bridge would be the scientific explanation for this, given the age. Just a longer walk than for the Asiatic folks.