Genes from ‘culturally extinct’ people discovered in living humans
Aug 06, 2020
2 minutes
Words by Laura Geggel
The last known members of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland were thought to have died out 200 years ago. But genes from these people have been found in a man living in Tennessee today.
Shanawdithit, a Beothuk woman who died of
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