LOSING A LOST TRIBE

Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church

by Simon G. Southerton

 

Simon G. Southerton is a senior research scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Canberra, Australia. He is a former senior research scientist in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Queensland, and post-doctorial fellow at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney in plant science and now specializes in the molecular biology of forest trees. He has published research articles in international journals such as Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Physiology, and Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. He served and LDS mission to Melbourne in the 1980s.

 

Chapter 1 - A Chosen Race in a Promised Land

 

Chapter 2 - Race Relations in Colonial America

 

Chapter 3 - Lamanites in the Latter Days

 

Chapter 4 - The Lamanites of Polynesia

 

Chapter 5 - Human Molecular Genealogies

 

Chapter 6 - Science and the First Americans

 

Chapter 7 - Native American Molecular Genealogies

 

Chapter 8 - Polynesian Molecular Genealogies

 

Chapter 9 - The Outcasts of Israel

 

Chapter 10  - The Lord's University

 

Chapter 11 - Plausible Geography

 

Chapter 12 - Faith Promoting Science

 

Chapter 13 - LDS Molecular Apologetics

 

Chapter 14 - Moving the Spirit

 

Appendice A - Testing for Mitochondrial DNA Lineages

 

Appendice B - Material DNA Lineages in the New World

 

Appendice C - Statement from the Smithsonian Institution

 

Appendice D - Websites on Mormon Topics

 

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