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Gene study reveals unknown human migration into South America as late as 720AD



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“Gene study reveals unknown human migration into South America as late as 720AD”
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The web search results discuss general findings about dynamic human migration and genetic data in South America, but none specifically corroborate the claim that a gene study revealed migration as late as 720 AD. The Wikipedia evidence is general or irrelevant (e.g., 720 AD year). Since no independent sources confirm this specific date and finding, and the evidence is limited to general discussion, it cannot be corroborated.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 720 most commonly refers to: 720 (number) AD 720, a year in the Gregorian calendar 720 BC, a year in the Gregorian calendar 720 AUC, a year in the Julian calendar 720 may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/720_(disambiguation)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Datsun Truck is a compact pickup truck made by Nissan in Japan from 1955 to 1997. It was originally sold under the Datsun brand, but this was switched to Nissan in 1983. It was replaced in 1997 by…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datsun_truck
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples who are native to the Americas or the Western Hemisphere. Their ancestors are among the pre-Columbian population of South or North America, inclu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Amer…
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“Scientists have discovered traces of a genetic signature associated with Indigenous Australasians dating from China’s Tang dynasty”
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The evidence provided does not contain any information regarding genetic traces associated with Indigenous Australasians dating to China's Tang dynasty. The web search and Wikipedia results are general or unrelated to this specific claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of wolves. Also called the domestic dog, it was selectively bred during the Late Pleistocene by hunter-gatherers. Dogs…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Early human migrations are the earliest migrations and expansions of archaic and modern humans across continents. They are believed to have begun approximately 2 million years ago with the early expan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — It is believed that the peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which h…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopling_of_the_Americas
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“These new settlers carried genes remarkably similar to Indigenous populations in what is now Australia and the Pacific Islands, according to the study published online by the journal Nature on April 22.”
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The web search results mention studies published in Nature Communications regarding rapid peopling of Australia and New Guinea, which relates to the topic of the claim. However, none of the provided evidence explicitly confirms the details (genes similar to Indigenous populations in Australia and the Pacific Islands) or the specific publication date (April 22) in the manner required for corroboration. The evidence is insufficient to confirm the claim's specific details.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Many scholars have argued that the British colonisation of Australia and subsequent actions of various Australian governments and individuals involved acts of genocide against Indigenous Australians. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Indigenous_Austral…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Indigenous people of Oceania are Aboriginal Australians, Papuans, and Austronesians (Melanesians, Micronesians, and Polynesians). These indigenous peoples have a historical continuity with pre-col…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Oceania
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands. As an ethnic/racial term, it is used to describe the original peoples—inhabitants and di…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islander
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“The researchers concluded that much of the ancestry found in modern Indigenous South Americans did not come primarily from the continent’s earliest settlers.”
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The evidence provided does not contain specific sources that confirm the conclusion that much of the ancestry found in modern Indigenous South Americans did not primarily come from the continent’s earliest settlers. While the web search results discuss complex genetic histories in South America, they do not support this specific conclusion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The indigenous languages of South America are those whose origin dates back to the pre-Columbian era. The subcontinent has great linguistic diversity, but, as the number of speakers of indigenous lang…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_South_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples who are native to the Americas or the Western Hemisphere. Their ancestors are among the pre-Columbian population of South or North America, inclu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Amer…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before European colonization have been difficult to establish. Estimates have varied widely from as low as 8 million to as many as 100 mil…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indi…
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“The team stressed that the findings did not imply a direct migration from Australasia to South America but instead pointed to an ancient “ghost population” that contributed genetic ancestry to some Indigenous groups in the Amazon.”
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The web search results discuss the concept of 'ghost population' in the context of ancient humans and genetic studies. This supports the general concept mentioned in the claim. However, the evidence does not provide multiple independent sources confirming that the findings suggest an ancient 'ghost population' contributed genetic ancestry to Indigenous groups in the Amazon, nor does it confirm the exclusion of direct migration from Australasia. The evidence is limited to general discussions of 'ghost population' theory.
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web search NEUTRAL — This is referred to as a "ghost population". The manipulation allows exploration in the effects of missing populations on the estimation of population sizes and migration rates between two specific po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_population
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web search NEUTRAL — A Homo neanderthalensis skull:The ghost population split from the ancestors of Neanderthals and modern humans between 360,000 and 1 million years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/12/scientists-f…
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web search NEUTRAL — Modern West Africans, such as these Mende people in Sierra Leone, carry a small but helpful genetic inheritance from a previously unknown, now-extinct hominid population, a new study suggests.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/some-west-africans-may-h…
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“For decades, scientists have believed that the Americas were populated through two major migration waves of ancestral groups that began roughly 15,000 years ago across a land bridge that once existed in the Bering Strait between today’s Alaska and Siberia.”
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Multiple web search results confirm the historical scientific belief that the Americas were populated by people crossing the Bering Strait land bridge, estimated around 15,000 years ago. One source notes that this view is 'slowly starting to change' due to new genetic evidence, confirming the historical context of the claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — Most scientists believe this is also how the first humans traveled into the Americas, as they followed these animal herds in search of food and better living conditions. Eventually, as the Ice Age cam…
https://www.englishtestblog.com/2026/04/origins-and-migratio…
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web search NEUTRAL — Archaeologists estimate that people entered North America by crossing over the Bering Strait, which back then was a wide swath of land, about 15,000 years ago. In other words, people got here by walki…
https://www.livescience.com/7640-humans-migrate-americas.htm…
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web search NEUTRAL — That is slowly starting to change. A 2019 study found genetic evidence that ancient people living on opposite sides of the Bering Strait were in contact with each other.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-americans…

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