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 …

In this review, encouraged by the dictum of Theodosius Dobzhansky that “Nothing in biology
makes sense except in the light of evolution”, we outline the likely evolutionary pathways …

Abstract During the Last Glacial Maximum, continental ice sheets isolated Beringia
(northeast Siberia and northwest North America) from unglaciated North America. By around …

" 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 …

The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is an important model system for the
study of parallel evolution in the wild, having repeatedly colonized and adapted to …

Ancient Native American ancestors (Clovis) have been interpreted as either specialized
megafauna hunters or generalist foragers. Supporting data are typically indirect (toolkits …

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 …

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western
Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South …

As the main external driver, environmental changes largely predetermine human population
distribution, especially in the Arctic, where environmental conditions were often too extreme …

Abstract The Bering Land Bridge (BLB) last connected Eurasia and North America during
the Late Pleistocene. Although the BLB would have enabled transfers of terrestrial biota in …