G.A. Matson is a member of the Church, and he is the director of the National Blood bank in St. Louis. So all the types, all the data, passes through his hands. . . . They find at the blood bank that the dominant type among the American Indians is type O, though some tribes like the Blackfeet are 100 percent type A, as are the Hawaiians. Now Mongolians, on the other hand (people tell us that Indians are all Mongolians) are almost exclusively type B. You won't find type B among the Indians--it's very rare. And if there's anything that's conservative, it's duck lice and blood types. Those things never change through millions of years, they tell us. . . . A combination of O and A is found among the Indians in the same proportions as found among the Arabs and Jews. We're talking about rough proportions here. But the one thing that's missing is the Mongol type, which is exceedingly rare, the type B. [Hugh W. Nibley, Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 4, p. 239; see also Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 3, p. 208]
“Exceedingly Great Many Who Departed Out of the Land”
G.A. Matson is a member of the Church, and he is the director of the National Blood bank in St. Louis. So all the types, all the data, passes through his hands. . . . They find at the blood bank that the dominant type among the American Indians is type O, though some tribes like the Blackfeet are 100 percent type A, as are the Hawaiians. Now Mongolians, on the other hand (people tell us that Indians are all Mongolians) are almost exclusively type B. You won't find type B among the Indians--it's very rare. And if there's anything that's conservative, it's duck lice and blood types. Those things never change through millions of years, they tell us. . . . A combination of O and A is found among the Indians in the same proportions as found among the Arabs and Jews. We're talking about rough proportions here. But the one thing that's missing is the Mongol type, which is exceedingly rare, the type B. [Hugh W. Nibley, Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 4, p. 239; see also Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 3, p. 208]