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Migration

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The Evolution of Movement

With the advent of DNA and being able to look inside people's bones, is it common to examine a person's bones and find that they come from somewhere else? People are doing studies around the world from Mesoamerica, the Aztecs, the people who are living in North America. And sometimes you couldn't differentiate them. You'd have a person who was born locally and a person who migrated into the town buried right next to each other. Do you think movement is a human thing, a mammal thing, a living being thing? Like, is movement just inherent? It must be.

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