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Origin: A Genetic History of the AmericasBy Jennifer Raff

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Combining the newest genetic research with archeological data and cultural Native American mythology, Jennifer Raff reveals a new face of early American history and the people who made it.

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The story this rather dry genetic evidence reveals is breathtaking when you stop to think about it: a small group of people survived one of the deadliest climate episodes in all of human evolutionary history through a combination of luck and ingenuity.

Jennifer Raff

Introduction

The origin of Native people in the Americas has been a widely disputed topic in American history, with very few preserved remains and tools found over the continents.

But new archeological and genetic discoveries started coming in at the end of the 20th century.

Jennifer Raff is an American geneticist and assistant professor at Kansas University.

In Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas, Raff presents the latest discoveries in the story of human settlement of the Americas.

The history of North America is getting rewritten with mounting amounts of archeological and genetic data indicating that people inhabited the continent thousands of years before what was previously believed.

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