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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

"thousands of years ago" isn't the kind of resolution I was interested-in.

IF the genetic-drift-rate ( or whatever it's called ) of the critters is known,

THEN it should be possible to identify when they came here from Asia, through cladistics.

That may be another torpedo-hit in the "there is no evidence the Indigenous people were in the Americas significantly before the interglacial began" prejudice.

( there is already plenty of evidence that they were here, but when dealing with ideology-addiction/prejudice, you have to keep nailing the damn coffin closed, until the prejudice stays dead )