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