US EditionGenomics Study Shows Early Asians Traveled over 20,000 Km From North Asia to South America
- Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, led a genomics investigation that uncovered an ancient human migration spanning over 20,000 kilometers, beginning more than 100,000 years ago as early Asians moved across continents, ultimately reaching the southernmost regions of the Americas.
- This longest-known prehistoric migration occurred as humans crossed the Bering Land Bridge during the last Ice Age and took thousands of years over multiple generations.
- Around 14,000 years ago, the first human groups reached the area where present-day Panama borders Colombia in South America, subsequently dividing into four separate populations, each with distinct genetic profiles.
- The study, based on DNA sequences from 1,537 individuals across 139 ethnic groups, found Asian populations hold greater genomic diversity than Europeans, reshaping understanding of human evolution according to senior author Stephan Schuster.
- Reduced genetic diversity in migrating groups limited immune gene variation, possibly explaining Indigenous susceptibility to later diseases and emphasizing the need to increase Asian representation in genetic research for medicine and public health.
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Asians made humanity's longest prehistoric migration and shaped the genetic landscape in the Americas
An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration. These early humans, who roamed the earth over 100,000 years ago, are believed to have traveled more than 20,000 kilometers on foot from North Asia to the southernmost tip of South America. Scientists have mapped the unexpectedly vast genetic diversity of Asians, who make up more than half of the world's population. These findi…
New genomics study shows longest early human migration was from Asia, and it shaped the Americas
A new genomics study has revealed that the longest migration of early humans was from Asia more than 100,000 years ago, covering more than 20,000km on foot. The researchers say understanding this migration and modern genetic diversity can assist in developing better tools to deal with medicine and public health problems in modern populations. The journey took the ancient people from North Asia across the ice bridge that once spanned the Bering S…
From Asia to America: Genetics Reveals New Details of Humanity’s Longest Migration · Global Voices
One of the largest studies of populations traditionally ignored by genetics provides on Thursday new details on the longest human migration: from Asia to the extreme south of America. There, in Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Kawesqar, descendants of humans who have traveled further from the original continent of all humans, Africa, continue to live. The new study warns that the four large native groups of South America have suffered a population decli…
From North Asia to Tierra Del Fuego: This Was the Largest Migration in Human History
It was more than 20,000 km on foot, from northern Asia to the southernmost tip of South America, the largest known prehistoric migration of mankind.The journey, which lasted thousands of years and spanned multiple generations, was carried out by some of the first populations of northern Asia tens of thousands of years ago, and was made possible by the changing geographical configurations of the time, where ice bridges connected territories that …
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