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Map showing the generally accepted model of human spread over the world. Numbers indicate years before present. The indigenous peoples of the Americas are held by modern scientists to descend from the Paleo-Indians, who migrated from North Asia to Alaska via the Beringia land bridge, and not from the Middle East as claimed by the Book of Mormon. Part of a series on the

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The relationship between genetics and the Book of Mormon is based on implicit claims in the Book of Mormon about the ancestry of indigenous American peoples, which can be evaluated through genetic research. The Book of Mormon claims that the ancestors of some or all Native Americans were Israelites.

Scientists have developed techniques that attempt to use genetic markers to indicate the ethnic background and history of individual people. The data developed by these mainstream scientists tell us that the Native Americans have very distinctive DNA markers and that some of them are most similar, among old world populations, to the DNA of people anciently associated with the Altay Mountains area of central Asia. These evidences from a genetic perspective agree with a large body of archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic conclusions that Native American peoples' ancestors migrated from Asia across a land bridge at the latest 16,500–13,000 years ago.

The mainstream scientific consensus about the origin of the ancient Americans is at odds with the claims put forth in the Book of Mormon, though Mormon apologists have made efforts to reconcile these contradictions.

## Mainstream perspective

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Main articles: Peopling of the Americas and Genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya).[1]

The first settlers in the Americas were Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) who entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago).[2] These populations expanded south of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and spread rapidly southward, occupying both North and South America, by 12,000 to 14,000 years ago.[3][4][5][6][7] The earliest populations in the Americas, before roughly 10,000 years ago, are known as Paleo-Indians. Indigenous peoples of the Americas have been linked to Siberian populations by linguistic factors, the distribution of blood types, and in genetic composition as reflected by molecular data, such as DNA.[8][9]

Analyses of genetics among Indigenous American and Siberian populations have been used to argue for early isolation of founding populations on Beringia[10] and for later, more rapid migration from Siberia through Beringia into the New World.[11] The microsatellite diversity and distributions of the Y lineage specific to South America indicates that certain Indigenous American populations have been isolated since the initial peopling of the region.[12] The Na-Dene, Inuit and Native Alaskan populations exhibit Haplogroup Q-M242; however, they are distinct from other Indigenous Americans with various mtDNA and atDNA mutations.[13] This suggests that the peoples who first settled in the northern extremes of North America and Greenland derived from later migrant populations than those who penetrated farther south in the Americas.[14][15] Linguists and biologists have reached a similar conclusion based on analysis of Indigenous American language groups and ABO blood group system distributions.[16][17][18][9]

In November 2013 Nature published a discovery on an Upper Paleolithic Siberian site linking Western Eurasians in the Middle East and Europe to the indigenous Native American population.[19][20][21][22] According to the study the genomes sequenced show distinct genetic markers that are unique to the indigenous Native Americans and western Eurasia, but with no relation to East Asians.[21] The study indicates that 14–38% of Native American ancestry may originate through this gene flow.[19] One of the authors, Professor Kelly Graf, explained the significance of this, stating[19] that:

> Our findings are significant at two levels. First, it shows that Upper Paleolithic Siberians came from a cosmopolitan population of early modern humans that spread out of Africa to Europe and Central and South Asia. Second, Paleoindian skeletons like Buhl Woman with phenotypic traits atypical of modern-day indigenous Americans can be explained as having a direct historical connection to Upper Paleolithic Siberia.

## LDS perspectives and apologetics

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See also: Historicity of the Book of Mormon

### Statements from LDS Church leaders and official church statements

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See also: Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting § LDS Church leaders' teachings

LDS Church leaders long equated Amerindians with Lamanites. In the Doctrine and Covenants, revelations delivered by Joseph Smith refer to native people in the United States as "Lamanites".[23] Smith reported that when the golden plates were revealed to him in New York, an angel told him that the plates contained "an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang."[24] Brigham Young and other 19th-century church leaders generally equated Lamanites with the native Indians of the Americas.[25] Statements from senior LDS church leadership to that effect continued throughout the 20th century.[26][27][28]

An introductory paragraph added to the Book of Mormon in the LDS Church's 1981 edition stated in part: "After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the principal ancestors of the American Indians." In a 2006 edition, the statement was altered to indicate that "the Lamanites ... are among the ancestors of the American Indians."[29][30]

In 2014, the LDS Church published an essay on its website dealing with the topic directly.[31] The essay argues primarily that:

* the primary purpose of the Book of Mormon is more spiritual than historical;
* nothing is known about the DNA of Book of Mormon peoples, and even if their genetic profile were known, there are sound scientific reasons that it might remain undetected, which also means arguments by defenders of the Book of Mormon based on DNA studies are also speculative;
* significant European, African and West Asian DNA has arrived in the Americas since Columbus, may prevent the detection the Israelite DNA in question, especially if the genetic founder or founders of the Book of Mormon populations had unique genetics;
* and that methods used by scientists to date Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA markers are not sufficiently sensitive to pinpoint the timing of migrations that occurred as recently as a few hundred or even a few thousand years ago.

### Apologetic arguments regarding DNA composition

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Some defenders of the Book of Mormon's historicity, such as John L. Sorenson, have argued that the Book of Mormon peoples from the Middle East formed only a small portion of the population of the Americas, in what is called the limited geography model of the Book of Mormon.[32] Some limited geography model proponents, such as Michael F. Whiting, argue that there is " a strong possibility that there was substantial introgression of genes from other human populations into the genetic heritage of the Nephites and Lamanites, such that a unique genetic marker to identify someone unambiguously as a Lamanite, if it ever existed, was quickly lost."[33]

Critics of this argument counter that the Book of Mormon does not make clear reference to any other group of people that may have existed in the Americas alongside Book of Mormon people that would account for the dilution of the Middle Eastern genetic markers in the New World.[34] Therefore, it is argued, a "traditional reading" of the Book of Mormon suggests that "most, if not all" of the ancestry of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas came from this Hebrew migration in ancient times.[35]

### Criticism within the church

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Mormon researchers such as anthropologist Thomas W. Murphy and ex-Mormon plant geneticist Simon Southerton state that the substantial collection of Native American genetic markers now available are not consistent with any detectable presence of ancestors from the ancient Middle East. They have argued that this poses substantial evidence to contradict the account in the Book of Mormon.[36]

In 2004, Simon Southerton, then a geneticist and LDS Church member, published the book Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church.[37] The book uses genetic evidence to examine the historical accuracy of the Book of Mormon and related claims about the Lamanite people. Southerton concluded that genetic evidence available up to that time discredited the LDS Church's claims regarding the Book of Mormon.

## See also

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* Mormon views on evolution

## Notes

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1. ^ Burenhult, Göran (2000). Die ersten Menschen. Weltbild Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8289-0741-6.
2. ^ Pringle, Heather (March 8, 2017). "What Happens When an Archaeologist Challenges Mainstream Scientific Thinking?". Smithsonian.
3. ^ Fagan, Brian M. & Durrani, Nadia (2016). World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction. Routledge. p. 124\. ISBN 978-1-317-34244-1.
4. ^ Goebel, Ted; Waters, Michael R.; O'Rourke, Dennis H. (2008). "The Late Pleistocene dispersal of modern humans in the Americas" (PDF). Science. 319 (5869): 1497–1502\. Bibcode:2008Sci...319.1497G. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.398.9315. doi:10.1126/science.1153569. PMID 18339930. S2CID 36149744. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2010-02-05.
5. ^ Zimmer, Carl (January 3, 2018). "In the Bones of a Buried Child, Signs of a Massive Human Migration to the Americas". The New York Times. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
6. ^ Moreno-Mayar, JV; Potter, BA; Vinner, L; et al. (2018). "Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans" (PDF). Nature. 553 (7687): 203–207\. Bibcode:2018Natur.553..203M. doi:10.1038/nature25173. PMID 29323294. S2CID 4454580.
7. ^ Núñez Castillo, Mélida Inés (2021-12-20). Ancient genetic landscape of archaeological human remains from Panama, South America and Oceania described through STR genotype frequencies and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Dissertation (doctoralThesis). doi:10.53846/goediss-9012. S2CID 247052631.
8. ^ Ash, Patricia J. & Robinson, David J. (2011). The Emergence of Humans: An Exploration of the Evolutionary Timeline. John Wiley & Sons. p. 289\. ISBN 978-1-119-96424-7.
9. ^ a b Alice Roberts (2010). The Incredible Human Journey. A&C Black. pp. 101–03\. ISBN 978-1-4088-1091-0. Archived from the original on 2021-01-25. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
10. ^ Tamm, Erika; Kivisild, Toomas; Reidla, Maere; et al. (5 September 2007). "Beringian Standstill and Spread of Native American Founders". PLOS ONE. 2 (9): e829. Bibcode:2007PLoSO...2..829T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000829. PMC 1952074. PMID 17786201.
11. ^ Derenko, Miroslava; Malyarchuk, Boris; Grzybowski, Tomasz; et al. (21 December 2010). "Origin and Post-Glacial Dispersal of Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups C and D in Northern Asia". PLOS ONE. 5 (12): e15214. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...515214D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015214. PMC 3006427. PMID 21203537.
12. ^ Bortolini, Maria-Catira; Salzano, Francisco M.; Thomas, Mark G.; et al. (September 2003). "Y-chromosome evidence for differing ancient demographic histories in the Americas". American Journal of Human Genetics. 73 (3): 524–539\. doi:10.1086/377588. PMC 1180678. PMID 12900798.
13. ^ Saillard, Juliette; Forster, Peter; Lynnerup, Niels; et al. (2000). "mtDNA Variation among Greenland Eskimos. The Edge of the Beringian Expansion". American Journal of Human Genetics. 67 (3): 718–726\. doi:10.1086/303038. PMC 1287530. PMID 10924403.
14. ^ Schurr, Theodore G. (21 October 2004). "The Peopling of the New World: Perspectives from Molecular Anthropology". Annual Review of Anthropology. 33: 551–583\. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143932.
15. ^ Torroni, Antonio; Schurr, Theodore G.; Yang, Chi-Chuan; et al. (January 1992). "Native American Mitochondrial DNA Analysis Indicates That the Amerind and the Nadene Populations Were Founded by Two Independent Migrations". Genetics. 30 (1): 153–162\. doi:10.1093/genetics/130.1.153. PMC 1204788. PMID 1346260.
16. ^ Wade, Nicholas (12 March 2014). "Pause Is Seen in a Continent's Peopling". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 April 2021. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
17. ^ Lyovin, Anatole V. (1997). "Native Languages of the Americas". An Introduction to the Languages of the World. Oxford University. p. 309\. ISBN 978-0-19-508115-2. Archived from the original on 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
18. ^ Mithun, Marianne (October 1990). "Studies of North American Indian Languages". Annual Review of Anthropology. 19 (1): 309–330\. doi:10.1146/annurev.an.19.100190.001521. JSTOR 2155968.
19. ^ a b c Raghavan, Maanasa; Skoglund, Pontus (20 November 2013). "Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans". Nature. 505 (7481): 87–91\. Bibcode:2014Natur.505...87R. doi:10.1038/nature12736. PMC 4105016. PMID 24256729.
20. ^ "Ancient Siberian genome reveals genetic origins of Native Americans". Phys.org. 20 November 2013. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
21. ^ a b ""Great Surprise"—Native Americans Have West Eurasian Origins". National Geographic. 20 November 2013. Archived from the original on 5 November 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
22. ^ "The Very First Americans May Have Had European Roots". Smithsonian.com. 25 October 2013. Archived from the original on 21 October 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
23. ^ Doctrine and Covenants 28:8–9, 14; 32:2; 54:8.
24. ^ Joseph Smith–History 1:34.
25. ^ See, e.g., Young, Brigham (1866). "Our Indian Relations—How To Deal with Them". Journal of Discourses. 11: 263–66.; Kimball, Heber C. "Union of the Saints—Authority of the Priesthood—Power of God—Obedience—The Urim and Thummim, Etc". Journal of Discourses. 2: 108.; Woodruff, Wilford. "Preaching the Gospel to, and Helping the Lamanites—Obedience to Counsel". Journal of Discourses. 9: 221–29.
26. ^ Spencer W. Kimball, "To You ... Our Kinsmen", Conference Report, October 1959, pp. 57-62.
27. ^ Spencer W. Kimball, "Of Royal Blood", Ensign, July 1971.
28. ^ Ted E. Brewerton, "The Book of Mormon: A Sacred Ancient Record", Ensign, November 1995.
29. ^ Stack, Peggy Fletcher. "Single word change in Book of Mormon speaks volumes", Salt Lake Tribune, 08 November 2007
30. ^ Moore, Carrie A. "Debate renewed with change in Book of Mormon introduction" Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Deseret News, 08 November 2007
31. ^ Book of Mormon and DNA Studies. churchofjesuschrist.org. Gospel Topics Essays. Accessed January 17, 2025.
32. ^ Sorenson 1984a; Sorenson 1984b
33. ^ (Whiting 2003, pp. 24–35).
34. ^ Murphy, Thomas (2003). "Simply Implausible: DNA and a Mesoamerican Setting for the Book of Mormon". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 36 (4): 109–131\. doi:10.2307/45227190. JSTOR 45227190. SSRN 2177709.
35. ^ (Southerton 2004, p. 156).
36. ^ (Southerton 2004).
37. ^ Southerton 2004.

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## Further reading

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* Perego, Ugo A. (2011). "The Book of Mormon and the Origin of Native Americans from a Maternally Inherited DNA Standpoint". In Millet, Robert L. (ed.). No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues. Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University. pp. 171–217\. ISBN 978-0-8425-2794-1.
* "Gospel Topics – Book of Mormon and DNA Studies", churchofjesuschrist.org, LDS Church
* "Commentary – DNA and the Book of Mormon", MormonNewsroom.org, LDS Church, 16 February 2006
* Thomas, MG; Parfitt, T; Weiss, DA; Skorecki, K; Wilson, JF; le Roux, M; Bradman, N; Goldstein, DB (February 2000). "Y chromosomes traveling south: the cohen modal haplotype and the origins of the Lemba--the "Black Jews of Southern Africa"". American Journal of Human Genetics. 66 (2): 674–86\. doi:10.1086/302749. PMC 1288118. PMID 10677325.

## External links

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* Murphy, Thomas W.'s Scholarly Papers, Social Science Research Network

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* Mormonism & Nicene Christianity
* Relationship to U.S. politics
* LGBTQ rights
* Senkyoshigo
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* Joseph Smith Papyri
* Eyewitnesses
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* Giving Machine

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