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Are there any examples of DNA from a population, perhaps bacterial or fruit flies, etc., disappearing?
Thank you for explaining this genetic issue so that even I can understand it (or at least most of it 🙂 ). Although I do not believe that an accurate reading of the text of The Book of Mormon allows for “others” in the areas inhabited by the people of this book, there was plenty of room for Asian tribes west of the Rocky Mountains on the northern half of the North American Continent during that period. Also, there could have been Asian migration into America after this period. These could have mixed with the surviving Lamanites. The Asians migrations at any time did not have to come over the Beringia land-bridge as they could have come by sea, as did all other groups that we are aware of.