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Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics

@article{Willerslev2021PeoplingOT,
  title={Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics},
  author={Eske Willerslev and David J. Meltzer},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2021},
  volume={594},
  pages={356 - 364},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:235460793}
}
All ancient individuals in the Americas, save for later-arriving Arctic peoples, are more closely related to contemporary Indigenous American individuals than to any other population elsewhere, which challenges the claim-which is based on anatomical evidence-that there was an early, non-Native American population in the Americans.
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