Re: First Americans Arrived Recently, Settled Pacific Coast, DNA Study Says

This doesn't make sense to me. They seem to be saying that almost all
native North Americans belong to one of five lineages, but this guy
they found doesn't, and only a few costal people are related to him.
OK, so how does that mean that all of North America was settled
recently? It would seem that the majority of native North Americans
have an origin that does not involve this find. If this guy were one
of the first arrivals, and any latter arrivals had to wade through his
descendents to get to the rest of North America, I would expect his
genes to be well distributed. Instead, his descendents are limited to
a narrow territory; wouldn't that be a little more consistent with a
late arrival whose descendents are outnumbered by those who have been
here longer?

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