PEOPLING OF THE AMERICAS

What was the article we read on genetic chronicle of the first people in the Americas about?

• How ancient people migrated here and made this continent their home

• How ancient people migrated out of Africa

• How ancient people went from America to Africa

• How ancient people lived in Asia before coming to America

Why does Jennifer Raff, the author, mention that "WE ARE LIVING through a revolution in the scientific study of human history"?

• Because of the new discoveries in Science

• Because of the new developments in innovation

• Because of the technical developments in how to recover DNA and making a good analysis

• Because of the new scientists graduated in universities

What did the new evidence demonstrate scientists about the peopling of the Americas?

• That people came to the Americas many years after the Bering Stait theories

• That people came to the Americas through different waves

• That people arrived to the Americas through The Bering Strait

• That there were people in the Americas for thousands of years before the last ice age

Which of the following information is true about the people around 36,000 years ago?

• That a small group of people who lived in the east asia began to break off from the larger ancestral polupations

• That a large group of people began migrating from America to Asia from the Bering Strait

• That a large and small group of people decided to migrate through the Pacific ocean into the Americas

• That a small group of people decided to migrate into Europe right after leaving from Africa

What does LGM mean?

• Last glacier maximum

• Last glacier minimum

• Last glacial maximum

• Last glacial minimum

What does the author say if the "out of Beringia" model is correct?

• That Beringia was in fact the starting point of migration

• That Beringia wasn´t a crossing point, but a homeland

• That Beringia was the meeting place for all of the people coming from Asia

• That Beringia did not exist

What was the place of origin of the Ancestral Native Americans that moved south, the Ancient Beringians who stayed in Beringia and another mystery group (Unsampled population A)?

• Asia

• Central America

• Beringia

• Africa

What does the article say that the clear imprints in the genomes of the descendants found about 17,000 years ago represent?

• That when the ice sheets melted, the first people expanded south

• That during the last ice age, the Beringians decided to settle

• That the people stopped due to a large glacier presence

• That during the last ice age, many people died

What does the Mitochondrial DNA lineages after the LGM show us?

• That before the LGM, people stayed in Beringia

• That before the LGM, people decided to find ways to survive and they settled

• That after the LGM, people spreaded out showing a significant growth in population

• That before and after the LGM, people due to weather conditions, people returned to Asia

Which important event take place in 1968 which led to an amazing discovery?

• One grave was found by accident

• Two graves were found by accident

• Three graves were found by accident

• Four graves were found by accident