The Impacts of European Colonization on Native Populations

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So, so we have this mass ofe population of north america, south America. And what do we think was was the sor o maximum population? It was just just asstounding. I never reading 14 91 by charles mann anevr,. read those books, yes? And these incredible descriptions by early, the earliest european navigators of sailing up the east coast and seeing so many fires at night that it looked like the entire east coast of the united states was a single village. There was just massive population. Millions of millions of millions of people, right? Were present?

Thousands of years ago, humans crossed a land bridge from Siberia into Alaska. They tried to move south, but a two-mile-high, coast-spanning ice wall stood between them and the rest of the continent.

How did they get past it?

Scholars have fought over that question for decades. But in her book, “Origin,” Jennifer Raff says breakthroughs in genetics have given scientists an entirely new understanding of how the Americas were peopled and what happened in the millennia that followed.

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