Micro post on the Amerindians and their uniqueness

Micro post! I am just reading old papers on Amerindians and came across this one (Mesa et al., 2000) [1]. Which shows the very interesting tree pictured below:

Fig. 2. Mesa et al., 2000

See how Europeans and Asians cluster together on the left while Amerindians are on the right, in a branch splitting from the junction of Eurasia and Africa... Not the usual East Asia branching into Amerindians is it?

Source

[1] Natalia Mesa et al., (2000). Autosomal, mtDNA, and Y-Chromosome Diversity in Amerinds: Pre- and Post-Columbian Patterns of Gene Flow in South America.Am J Hum Genet. Nov 2000; 67(5): 1277–1286. Published online Oct 13, 2000. doi: 10.1016/S0002-9297(07)62955-3

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