title: Anthropology. Response to Comment on "Late Pleistocene human skeleton and mtDNA link Paleoamericans and modern Native Americans".
abstract: Prüfer and Meyer raise concerns over the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) results we reported for the Hoyo Negro individual, citing failure of a portion of these data to conform to their expectations of ancient DNA (aDNA). Because damage patterns in aDNA vary, outright rejection of our findings on this basis is unwarranted, especially in light of our other observations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology and School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA. paleosci@gmail.com bmkemp@wsu.edu.
authors.forename: Brian M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Kemp
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lindo
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology and Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
authors.forename: Deborah A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Bolnick
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
authors.forename: Ripan S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Malhi
authors.affiliation: Applied Paleoscience and DirectAMS, 10322 Northeast 190th Street, Bothell, WA 98011, USA. paleosci@gmail.com bmkemp@wsu.edu.
authors.forename: James C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Chatters
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000235:genetics*; D012863:Skeleton