DNA study bolsters disputed view of migration into North America

Geneticists examining the origins of Native Americans and other indigenous groups conclude that their ancestors migrated from Asia in at least three waves, not in a single wave. Supporting a controversial view of how humans might have populated the Western Hemisphere, geneticists have found that groups from Asia traveled over the Bering Strait into North America in at least three separate migrations beginning more than 15,000 years ago — not in a single wave, as has been widely thought.

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