The founding of New World populations by Asian peoples is the focus of considerable
archaeological and genetic research, and there persist important questions on when and …

The Americas, the last continents to be entered by modern humans, were colonized during
the late Pleistocene via a land bridge across what is now the Bering strait. However, the …

It has been proposed that all native American mitochondrial DNA variation in the New World
can be attributed to divergence from four “founding lineages” which entered the New World …

A review of genetic evidence leads to the following conclusions concerning human
population history:(1) Between 33,000 and 150,000 years ago the human population …

The history of the Americas involved the encounter of millions of Native Americans,
Europeans, and Africans. A variable admixture of these three continental groups has taken …

Recent studies of large portions of the human genome support a recent origin of modern
humans from an African stock after a bottleneck of moderate size followed by a range …

▪ Abstract A major and continuing debate in anthropology concerns the question of whether
modern Homo sapiens emerged as a separate species roughly 200,000 years ago in Africa …

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 …

The peopling of the New World has been the focus of anthropological attention since the last
century. Proponents of multiple migration models have claimed that patterns of variation …

Currently, one of the major debates about the American peopling focuses on the number of
populations that originated the biological diversity found in the continent during the …