What does Kennewick Man’s MtDNA, Y chromosome, and autosomal DNA show he is directly related to?

Mirror for Humanity: Concise Introduction Cultrual Anthropology by Conrad Kottak

 

Questions: (pick 4)

  1. Who did his skeletal morphology look like?
  2. Is it possible to connect him to Native American tribes based solely on the morphology of his cranium?
  3. When the lawsuit ended in 2004 and by studying his bones (pre DNA), scientists were able to determine what about the Kennewick Man’s relationship to modern day tribes?

4.What is the problem with using cranial morphology when trying to categorize humans?

  1. What does Kennewick Man’s MtDNA, Y chromosome, and autosomal DNA show he is directly related to?
  2. Is he related the Anzick 1 child? If not, who is the Anzick child related to?
  3. Modern day Native Americans did not want Kennewick Man studied, were they mistaken.
  4. What does this topic have to do with race and ethnicity?