Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, Dna, and the Mormon Church (SIGNED BY AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR)

Southerton, Simon G.

ISBN 10: 1560851813 / ISBN 13: 9781560851813

Published by Signature Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A., 2004

About this Item

xvi, 270 pages. NEW condition. Softcover trade edition. The author lives in AUSTRALIA and after a short author tour in the US has no current plans to return. As a result, SIGNED copies of this book will be in short supply. A ground-breaking study on the relationship between the Book of Mormon and genetic studies of Native Americans. Carefully wrapped in BOTH plain white paper and bubble wrap and packaged to PREVENT shipping damage.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, Dna, and the Mormon Church (SIGNED BY AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR)
• Publisher: Signature Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1560851813
• ISBN 13: 9781560851813
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition, Second Printing
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed and Dated By Author on
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mormon Signed Editions

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Synopsis

For the past 175 years, the Latter-day Saint Church has taught that Native Americans and Polynesians are descended from ancient seafaring Israelites. Recent DNA research confirms what anthropologists have been saying for nearly as many years, that Native Americans are originally from Siberia and Polynesians from Southeast Asia. In the current volume, molecular biologist Simon Southerton explains the theology and the science and how the former is being reshaped by the latter.

In the Book of Mormon, the Jewish prophet Lehi says the following after arriving by boat in America in 600 BCE:

Wherefore, I, Lehi, have obtained a promise, that inasmuch as those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land of Jerusalem shall keep his commandments, they shall prosper upon the face of this land; and they shall be kept from all other nations, that they may possess this land unto themselves (2 Ne. 1:9).

About the Author

Simon G. Southerton is Principal Research Scientist in the Applied Biotechnology and Genomics area of the Commonwealth Scientific laboratories (CSIRO) in Canberra, Australia. His Ph.D. is from the University of Sydney. He has published in New Phytologist, Plant Journal, Plant Molecular Biology, and Plant Physiology. He served an LDS mission to Melbourne in the 1980s.