The Late Pleistocene Dispersal of Modern Humans in the Americas

@article{Goebel2008TheLP,  title={The Late Pleistocene Dispersal of Modern Humans in the Americas},  author={Ted Goebel and Michael R. Waters and Dennis H. O’Rourke},  journal={Science},  year={2008},  volume={319},  pages={1497 - 1502},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:36149744}}
Current genetic evidence implies dispersal from a single Siberian population toward the Bering Land Bridge no earlier than about 30,000 years ago, then migration from Beringia to the Americas sometime after 16,500 years ago.

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