An international team including WSU assistant professor Omar E. Cornejo has mapped the genome of a child from the Clovis period, thereby reviving the scientific debate about the colonization of the Americas. Results published in the journal Nature show the child is a direct ancestor of roughly 80 percent of present day Native Americans.
“It is a very exciting article about an ancient human DNA genome that is helping us better understand the peopling of the Americas,” said Cornejo.