National Geographic...Discovers Nephi's Wife?!

You've got to read this article if you're LDS. One of my aunts sent it to me and was going nuts. This article states:

Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central, and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests.

Interestingly enough, a group in Salt Lake City helped with these findings. Now, nothing has been proven yet, but it's still a cool thought! Obviously the timing would have to be a little wrong if we were talking "Mrs. Lehi, Mrs. Nephi, Mrs. Sam, Mrs. Laman, Mrs. Lemuel, Mrs. Zoram." But I don't think these would be the right six. Maybe Sariah and Mrs. Ishmael had something to do with it, but the lines could possible be back further, linked up with mothers in Israel.

I also found another article on their website interesting. Here's what it had to say:

A study of the oldest known sample of human DNA in the Americas suggests that humans arrived in the New World relatively recently, around 15,000 years ago.

Comparing the DNA found in the tooth with that sampled from 3,500 Native Americans, researchers discovered that only one percent of modern tribal members have genetic patterns that matched the prehistoric sample.

With this one, I'm thinking along the lines of the Brother of Jared coming before the Nephites. Thus the DNA would be different.

I'm not about to stand up in Church and preach any of this as scripture, you know, but it does make for interesting reading and discussion. Until President Monson or another head of the Church confirms something like this, I just digest the information and hope it leads to my own personal revelation later. :-)