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SUBMITTER: Llamas B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4820370 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Llamas Bastien B Fehren-Schmitz Lars L Valverde Guido G Soubrier Julien J Mallick Swapan S Rohland Nadin N Nordenfelt Susanne S Valdiosera Cristina C Richards Stephen M SM Richards Stephen M SM Rohrlach Adam A Romero Maria Inés Barreto MI Espinoza Isabel Flores IF Cagigao Elsa Tomasto ET Jiménez Lucía Watson LW Makowski Krzysztof K Reyna Ilán Santiago Leboreiro IS Lory Josefina Mansilla JM Torrez Julio Alejandro Ballivián JA Rivera Mario A MA Burger Richard L RL Ceruti Maria Constanza MC Reinhard Johan J Wells R Spencer RS Politis Gustavo G Santoro Calogero M CM Standen Vivien G VG Smith Colin C Reich David D Ho Simon Y W SY Cooper Alan A Haak Wolfgang W
Science advances 20160401 4
The exact timing, route, and process of the initial peopling of the Americas remains uncertain despite much research. Archaeological evidence indicates the presence of humans as far as southern Chile by 14.6 thousand years ago (ka), shortly after the Pleistocene ice sheets blocking access from eastern Beringia began to retreat. Genetic estimates of the timing and route of entry have been constrained by the lack of suitable calibration points and low genetic diversity of Native Americans. We sequ ...[more]