The most supported traditional hypothesis points out that
the earliest well-established human culture in the North American continent
were the Clovis, a population of hunters who arrived about 13,000 years before
present from North-East Asia through the Bering Strait, and scattered over the
continent. A new genetic study of South American natives, published on the
journal PLOS Genetics, provides scientific evidence to reformulate the
traditional model and define new theories of human settlement of the Americas.
Professor Daniel Turbón, from the Department of Animal Biology of the UB, is
one of the authors of this international research, led by Lutz Roewer (Charité
- University Medicine, Berlin). Eduardo Arroyo-Pardo and Ana Maria López Parra
(Complutense University of Madrid) also sign the paper.