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Old March 6th, 2013 #239
N.M. Valdez
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Here's three important studies that your non-geneticist authors Stanford and Bradley have published no response to.

1. Mitochondrial Population Genomics Supports a Single Pre-Clovis Origin with a Coastal Route for the Peopling of the Americas, American Journal of Human Genetics, 2008 March 3; 82(3): 583–592: "Here we show, by using 86 complete mitochondrial genomes, that all Native American haplogroups, including haplogroup X, were part of a single founding population, thereby refuting multiple-migration models such as the Solutrean hypothesis."

2. Distinctive Paleo-Indian Migration Routes from Beringia Marked by Two Rare mtDNA Haplogroups, Current Biology, 13 January 2009 (Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 1-8): "Phylogeographic analyses at the highest level of molecular resolution (69 entire mitochondrial genomes) reveal that two almost concomitant paths of migration from Beringia led to the Paleo-Indian dispersal approximately 15–17 kya. Haplogroup D4h3 spread into the Americas along the Pacific coast, whereas X2a entered through the ice-free corridor between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets."

3. Mitochondrial haplogroup C4c: a rare lineage entering America through the ice-free corridor?, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2012 Jan;147(1):35-9: "Taking into account that C4c is deeply rooted in the Asian portion of the mtDNA phylogeny and is indubitably of Asian origin, a scenario in which C4c and X2a are characterized by parallel genetic histories definitively dismisses the controversial Solutrean hypothesis of an Atlantic glacial entry route into North America for X2a (Stanford and Bradley,2004; Straus et al.,2005)."

Since there don't seem to be any population geneticists who support the "Solutrean hypothesis," I guess there won't be any response.
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