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The story of the First Americans is more complex than once thought

— have shown that humans were in the Americas thousands of years earlier, well before the ice sheets melted and made overland travel possible.

Washington State's Kennewick Man, for example, has been said to resemble populations as disparate as modern Europeans and ancient, indigenous Japanese — even though the nearly 9,000-year-old skeleton's DNA firmly links him to modernUnderstanding what First Americans looked like — and why they looked different than modern Native Americans — is confounded by a North-South divide. South America is rich in the remains of ancient peoples; North America, not so much.

In other words, researchers believed, based on available evidence that was largely from South America, that the earliest Americans generally looked like each other. Only over time, for undetermined reasons, did their facial features evolve into those of modern Native American populations.

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