A new study shows that Mexico has one of the largest amounts of genetic diversity in the Americas. The researchers found that Mexico’s indigenous populations diverge genetically along a diagonal northwest-to-southeast axis, with differences becoming more pronounced as the ethnic groups become more geographically distant from one another. In particular, the Seri people along the northern mainland coast of the Gulf of California and a Mayan people known as the Lacandon found near the country’s southern border with Guatemala are as genetically different from one another as Europeans are from Chinese.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:25:40 +0000
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