[BenLurkin]

gnip

[ModelBreaker]

“chronicles the movement of the first humans as they spread across the Americas, venturing both southward and northward and sometimes mixing in with the local populations.”

This phrase is incoherent. If they were the first humans, how did the local population get there first?

[MeganC]

“gnip”

gnop?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. Weekend comes early for the weekly Digest ping list!

t’s highly unlikely that this population sailed from Australia or Indonesia to South America. Rather, this group likely trekked northward from their point of origin, venturing through China and Siberia.

It's highly unlikely that the writer of the article, and/or his academic sources, have any idea what they're talking about, vis a vis how populations moved around in the past, even the distant past. Also, it's problematical at best to try to figure out chronology from biology.