Losing a Lost Tribe.Losing A Lost Tribe Simon G. Southerton Signature Books 564 West 400 North, Salt Lake City, UT 84116-3411 1560851813 $24.95 1-800-356-5687 www.signaturebooks.com Losing A Lost Tribe: Native Americans Native Americans: see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the; Natives, Middle American; Natives, North American; Natives, South American., DNA, And The Mormon Church by Simon G. Southerton (Senior Research Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Canberra, Australia) is an impressively accessible study of the Native American's pre-migration origin. Deftly exploring the modern sciences and the recent discoveries made through ground breaking DNA research which provides confirmation of Siberian and Polynesian genetic heritage with respect the bloodline blood·line (bl  d l n )n. of Native Americans, which is a great counterpoint counterpoint, in music, the art of combining melodies each of which is independent though forming part of a homogeneous texture. The term derives from the Latin for "point against point," meaning note against note in referring to the notation of plainsong. The academic study of counterpoint was long based on Gradus ad Parnassum (1725, tr. 1943) by Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741), an Austrian theorist and composer. to the 175 years of teaching from the Latter-day Saint Mormon church which argued the decent of Native American peoples from seafaring Israelites. As a work of extraordinary scientific, biological, and DNA research , as well as its progressive compromise of Mormonism's theological concepts as to Native American origins, Losing A Lost Tribe is thoughtful and thought-provoking reading.
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