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  • The Next Big Idea Origin: How Did Humans Migrate to the Americas? (Season 1, Episode 109)
  • Podcast Episode | 70 min | Talk-Show

The Next Big Idea

Origin: How Did Humans Migrate to the Americas? (Season 1, Episode 109)
Podcast Episode | 70 min | Talk-Show
Thousands of years ago, humans crossed a land bridge from Siberia into Alaska. They tried to move south, but a two-mile-high, coast-spanning ice wall stood between them and the rest of the continent. How did they get past it? Scholars have...See moreThousands of years ago, humans crossed a land bridge from Siberia into Alaska. They tried to move south, but a two-mile-high, coast-spanning ice wall stood between them and the rest of the continent. How did they get past it? Scholars have fought over that question for decades. But in her book, "Origin," Jennifer Raff says breakthroughs in genetics have given scientists an entirely new understanding of how the Americas were peopled and what happened in the millennia that followed. See less
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Updated Apr 14, 2022
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Apr 14, 2022 (United States)
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Rufus Griscom
Self - Host Self - Host   See fewer
The Next Big Idea (I) (2019)
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Jennifer Raff
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The Next Big Idea (I) (2019)
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