Humans Inhabited New World’s Doorstep For 20,000 Years

The human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a 20,000-year layover in Beringia, a once-habitable region that today lies submerged under the icy waters of the Bering Strait. Furthermore, the New World was colonized by approximately 1,000 to 5,000 people - a substantially higher number than the 100 or fewer individuals of previous estimates. The developments, to be reported by University of Florida Genetics Institute scientists in Wednesday’s (Feb.

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Filed under: Genetics on February 13th, 2008