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A six-week-old infant who died some 11,500 years ago in central Alaska is no
A six-week-old infant who died some 11,500 years ago in central Alaska is no
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2024-03-09
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A six-week-old infant who died some 11,500 years ago in central Alaska is now providing clues about how the Americas first came to be populated.
Genomic data from remains of the girl—named "Xach’itee’aanenh T’eede Gaay" (Sunrise Girl-Child) by the local indigenous community—broadly support a migration model that scientists have long argued for, while also revealing the existence of an ancient population previously unknown to science. The girl was a member of an ancient population that the report authors have named "Ancient Beringians". Beringia is the name given to Alaska, Eastern Siberia, and the land bridge that periodically connected the two during the last ice age.
The findings suggest a revised family tree: a single ancestral Native American group split from East Asians about 35,000 years ago, before later splitting, some 20,000 years ago, into two distinct groups. One was the Ancient Beringians. and the other constituted the ancestors of modern-day Native Americans, who later split into northern and southern populations about 15,700 years ago.
"Trying to integrate these findings with what we know fromhaeology (考古学) and paleoecology (古生态学) presents exciting new puzzles," says Ben Potter, an anthropologist (人类学家) at the University of Alaska. "The peopling has been shown now to be more complex than we thought previously. " Scientists have sought ancient human remains from Beringia at the end of the last ice age, but Xach’itee’aanenh T’eede Gaay’s genome held a surprise: it was clearly Native American, but not from either of the two major modern Native American groups. It represented a population that diverged from that common ancestor.
All of this helps narrow down and strengthen the theories of just how those populations arrived in the Americas. But mysteries remain, including definitive answers about where and when some of these population splits occurred and which migration routes were used.
Researchers outline two possible models. In one scenario, which Dr. Potter favors since it matches well with haeological data and paleoecological data, the split occurred in Northeast Asia, and the two separate populations later crossed over the land bridge prior to 15,700 years ago, when the Native American ancestors split again. In the other theory, the ancestral population had already arrived in Alaska or eastern Beringia by 20,000 years ago, and the split occurred there, with the second split into North and South American populations occurring south of the ice sheets. What happened to the Ancient Beringians? They might have died out, says Potter, or they could have been absorbed by Northern Native Americans who migrated back to the far North.
Researchers liken the puzzle to a murder mystery. "You read the book, and the author reveals new clues over the course of the book. Every time a new genome is analyzed and reported, it provides a new clue that’s making the pathway to uncover the real story that much clearer." [br] What can we infer from the two possible migration models?
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A、The first model seems to have acquired more support from research data.
B、The first split occurred about 15,700 years ago according to the second model.
C、The split of ancient Native Americans happened on the ice sheets in the first model.
D、The second model provides conclusive proof of the ending of the Ancient Beringians.
答案
A
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