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Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Spatiotemporal fluctuations of population structure in the Americas revealed by a meta-analysis of the first decade of archaeogenomes.American journal of biological anthropology · 2023Pooled it
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- Rapid adaptive increase of amylase gene copy number in Indigenous Andeans.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations.Science advances · 2026Article
- Genetic insights into the peoples who shaped the American continent.Genetics and molecular biology · 2026Article
- Vulnerable microbial communities in Atacama-Altiplano wetlands: modern analogs of ancient ecosystems with implications for sustainability and conservation.FEMS microbes · 2026Review
- Commentary on Special Issue: "Towards a Biocultural Synthesis of the Peopling of the Americas".American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic.Science advances · 2025Review
- Tracing Human Diversity in South America's Southern Cone: Linguistic, Morphometric, and Genetic Perspectives.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
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- Gradient in grammatical structure of indigenous languages reflects pathway of human expansion in the Americas.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Genome-Wide Selection Scans in Mexican Indigenous Populations Reveal Recent Signatures of Pathogen and Diet Adaptation.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
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- ntRoot: computational inference of human ancestry at scale from genomic data.Bioinformatics advances · 2025Article
- Phylogeny and disease associations of a widespread and ancient intestinal bacteriophage lineage.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Genomic analyses correspond with deep persistence of peoples of Blackfoot Confederacy from glacial times.Science advances · 2024Article
- The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown that this history, which began in the late Pleistocene epoch and continued episodically into the Holocene epoch, was far more complex than previously thought. It is now evident that the initial dispersal involved the movement from northeast Asia of distinct and previously unknown populations, including some for whom there are no currently known descendants. The first peoples, once south of the continental ice sheets, spread widely, expanded rapidly and branched into multiple populations. Their descendants-over the next fifteen millennia-experienced varying degrees of isolation, admixture, continuity and replacement, and their genomes help to illuminate the relationships among major subgroups of Native American populations. Notably, 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 Americas. Here we review the patterns revealed by ancient genomics that help to shed light on the past peoples who created the archaeological landscape, and together lead to deeper insights into the population and cultural history of the Americas.
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