Nearly all of the Native Americans that live in North, Central and South America are descendants from six women that lived 20,000 years ago, according to a DNA report Thursday.
These women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about about 95 percent of Native Americans, researchers said.
They probably lived in Beringia, the now-submerged land bridge that stetched to North America, he said. Beringia connected Russia to Alaska and is now submerged in the Bering Strait, hence the name.
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