Why do Amazonian people have some Australasian DNA?

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People in South America share a complicated connection to groups in South Asia and Oceania? Do they share ancestry from a mysterious group geneticists call Population Y?

Today the help of expert geneticists Tábita Hünemeier and Marcos Araújo Castro e Silva we're going to discuss one of the biggest questions in archaeology and prehistory, who was Population Y?

This research connects remote Indian islands, to the mountains of Vietnam, to caves deep in Brazil. It's fascinating stuff.

0:00 Introduction
3:53 Peopling of America
7:04 What do we know
12:48 Why not in the north?
17:27 Where did Pop Y come from?
23:46 In America First?
26:55 I see into your brain
30:00 Conclusione

Quick note Some images at 17:53 are not of the Onge, but of the neighbouring Jarawa ethnic group. I try really hard to source accurate images and video footage but for very small groups that is not always possible.

$1000 of the Myheritage sponsorship was donated to Amazon Watch in appreciation of the help provided by Native Groups in understanding our past. Much love to all!

Sources:
https://www.scielo.br/j/gmb/a/SSGnGN8...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...

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