Why do Amazonian people have some Australasian DNA?

Sign up for a 14-day free trial and enjoy all the amazing features MyHeritage has to offer. If you decide to continue your subscription, you’ll get a 50% discount. People in South America share a complicated connection to groups in South Asia and Oceania? Do they share ancestry from a mysterious group geneticists call Population Y? Today the help of expert geneticists Tábita Hünemeier and Marcos Araújo Castro e Silva we’re going to discuss one of the biggest questions in archaeology and prehistory, who was Population Y? This research connects remote Indian islands, to the mountains of Vietnam, to caves deep in Brazil. It’s fascinating stuff. 0:00 Introduction 3:53 Peopling of America 7:04 What do we know 12:48 Why not in the north? 17:27 Where did Pop Y come from? 23:46 In America First? 26:55 I see into your brain 30:00 Conclusione Quick note Some images at 17:53 are not of the Onge, but of the neighbou