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[–] match@pawb.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great article. It's worth remembering that DNA is only evidence that someone banged, and I imagine there's a fair amount of contact that goes on before that.

A North American group from Colombia

I hope this person just meant to say "Native American", and doesn't really think Colombia is in North America.

(sorry, I've spent the last week proofreading articles...)

[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

North America of course being any part of the Americas in the Northern hemisphere --

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The funny thing is, I can't even tell if you're being serious or joking...

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even the Columbia part is weird. Should have been "present-day Columbia" or similar.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, they also varied between spelling it "Columbia" and "Colombia" in the same article.

But I get it, there's not a lot of money in popular science publishing so they may not even have a copy editor, at least those kinds of stories are still getting popularized and not just 'ancient aliens'.