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The Importance of Migrations in the Past
There is a significant affinity, significant commonality between them and the people of Eastern Asia. Inuit people are very similar genetically to the people of Siberia and Mongolia. And if you look at the facial features of all these Olmec heads, they don't look Eastern Asian, they look African. It's because of migrations. They have found remains of ancient humans in South America that date back more than 100,000 years. So it becomes clear that there have been multiple waves of migration into the Americas. The story may not be so simple and so linear the way it is made out to be. We also have the mystery of the Olmecs. Did people migrate from Africa
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