Writing in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the authors find that technology spread more slowly in the Americas than in Eurasia. Population groups in the Americas have less frequent exchanges than groups that fanned out over Europe and Asia.
Data Science Insitute
Center for Computational Molecular Biology
Date
September 19, 2011
Continents influenced human migration, spread of technology
Researchers at Brown University and Stanford University have pieced together ancient human migration in North and South America.