Many LDS scholars have claimed for many years that the Lehites were a small incursion into a already existing New World population. In this podcast Mike Ash relates how the study of DNA evidence needs to be interpreted in three areas.
1) The Book of Mormon doesn’t deal with all ancient New World peoples.
2) We don’t know what “Israelite” DNA from Lehi’s time looks like.
3) DNA markers can disappear.
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