The Human Footfringoing

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Rater be. The human got out of the way before that. I meanit's so fastening. So one of the things i found most striking from this session was just hearing about a the behaviour that they're able to infer from these footprints. Rater be. We don't right now it sounds like there's not a preponderance of evidence, but this is precisely what happened with the series of sights eventually led to the refutation of the clovis first hypothesis,. But yet, there have been these constant paradime shifts in the history of archaeology. And i, you know, it's tempting to imagine that we might be on the verge of another one, right

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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