Is It an Anatomically Modern Homo Sapient?

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Most people are sceptical of what would have to be true to have a a that scenario be borne out. I want to stress, we've seen no evidence of that migration taking place through asia or anywhere else. We don't see any other sights that date to this time period in north america. Doesnit mean that they are not there, right? But there's always a first sight to be found, right? When you're doing in yor research. It could be an taller genisivan, or some other kind of archaic human that made this migration.

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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