<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3ec8f1ef-2595-4292-890d-7c5593cff62f/131D0EC5-D1A8-4769-A580-0967C780A399/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/" href="http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/" style="font-size: 11px;">scienceblogs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/"><P class="thetitle">Pre-Columbian Polynesian contacts?  <SPAN class="permlink"><A href="http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2007/06/precolumbian_polynesian_contac.php" id="a044466">permlink</A> <A href="http://www.technorati.com/search/http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2007/06/precolumbian_polynesian_contac.php">Technorati trackback</A></SPAN></p> <P class="categories">Category: <A href="http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/biology/genetics/">Genetics</A></p> <P><A href="http://johnhawks.net/weblog">John Hawks</A> points me to <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/science/05chic.html">this story</A> in <I>The New York Times</I> about research to be published in <I>PNAS</I>. Basically the researchers found that chickens buried in south-central Chile about a century before the Spanish contact with the New World were genetically most similar to those from Polynesia. <B>This is a pretty obvious case for pre-European contact between Old and New World peoples</B>. </p> <P class="moreLink"><A href="http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2007/06/precolumbian_polynesian_contac.php#more">Read on »</A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/131D0EC5-D1A8-4769-A580-0967C780A399/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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