In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of
the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown …

BACKGROUND North and South America were the last continents populated by modern
humans. The timing of their arrival, the routes they took, their homeland of origin, and how …

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The peopling of the Americas marks a major expansion of humans across the planet.
However, questions regarding the timing and mechanisms of this dispersal remain, and the …

" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

Whole-genome studies have documented that most Native American ancestry stems from a
single population that diversified within the continent more than twelve thousand years ago …

Until recently, the settlement of the Americas seemed largely divorced from the out‐of‐Africa
dispersal of anatomically modern humans, which began at least 50,000 years ago. Native …

An evaluation of recent claims for early human settlement of South America is presented.
Some of the problems with these cases are reviewed, particularly the ways in which …

Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—
phase of human evolution: the appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa less than half a million …

ABSTRACT A widely accepted model for the peopling of the Americas postulates a source
population in the Northeast Asian maritime region, which includes northern Japan. The …