Authors
Maanasa Raghavan, Matthias Steinrücken, Kelley Harris, Stephan Schiffels, Simon Rasmussen, Michael DeGiorgio, Anders Albrechtsen, Cristina Valdiosera, María C Ávila-Arcos, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Anders Eriksson, Ida Moltke, Mait Metspalu, Julian R Homburger, Jeff Wall, Omar E Cornejo, J Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Thorfinn S Korneliussen, Tracey Pierre, Morten Rasmussen, Paula F Campos, Peter De Barros Damgaard, Morten E Allentoft, John Lindo, Ene Metspalu, Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela, Josefina Mansilla, Celeste Henrickson, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Helena Malmström, Thomas Stafford Jr, Suyash S Shringarpure, Andrés Moreno-Estrada, Monika Karmin, Kristiina Tambets, Anders Bergström, Yali Xue, Vera Warmuth, Andrew D Friend, Joy Singarayer, Paul Valdes, Francois Balloux, Ilán Leboreiro, Jose Luis Vera, Hector Rangel-Villalobos, Davide Pettener, Donata Luiselli, Loren G Davis, Evelyne Heyer, Christoph PE Zollikofer, Marcia S Ponce de León, Colin I Smith, Vaughan Grimes, Kelly-Anne Pike, Michael Deal, Benjamin T Fuller, Bernardo Arriaza, Vivien Standen, Maria F Luz, Francois Ricaut, Niede Guidon, Ludmila Osipova, Mikhail I Voevoda, Olga L Posukh, Oleg Balanovsky, Maria Lavryashina, Yuri Bogunov, Elza Khusnutdinova, Marina Gubina, Elena Balanovska, Sardana Fedorova, Sergey Litvinov, Boris Malyarchuk, Miroslava Derenko, MJ Mosher, David Archer, Jerome Cybulski, Barbara Petzelt, Joycelynn Mitchell, Rosita Worl, Paul J Norman, Peter Parham, Brian M Kemp, Toomas Kivisild, Chris Tyler-Smith, Manjinder S Sandhu, Michael Crawford, Richard Villems, David Glenn Smith, Michael R Waters, Ted Goebel, John R Johnson, Ripan S Malhi, Mattias Jakobsson, David J Meltzer, Andrea Manica, Richard Durbin, Carlos D Bustamante, Yun S Song, Rasmus Nielsen, Eske Willerslev
Publication date
2015/8/21
Journal
Science
Volume
349
Issue
6250
Pages
aab3884
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
INTRODUCTION
The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge and that this occurred at least ~14.6 thousand years ago (ka). However, the number and timing of migrations into the Americas remain controversial, with conflicting interpretations based on anatomical and genetic evidence.
RATIONALE
In this study, we address four major unresolved issues regarding the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans: (i) the timing of their divergence from their ancestral group, (ii) the number of migrations into the Americas, (iii) whether there was ~15,000 years of isolation of ancestral Native Americans in Beringia (Beringian Incubation Model), and (iv) whether there was post-Pleistocene survival of relict populations in the Americas related to Australo-Melanesians, as suggested by …
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