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The following is an extract from Our Human Story, a newsletter about human evolution.  in your inbox every month.
Some plot threads in the human story are fairly settled while others are still being worked out. One story that’s still being written is the settlement of the Americas.
We know from genetic data that the first Americans came from east Asia. This also makes geographical sense, because the gap between the north-eastern point of Russia and the north-western tip of Alaska is only a few tens…
