Ancient Skeletons In Brazil Carried A Genetic Signal Scientists Did Not Expect — And It Complicated The Story Of The First Americans

It is where the story actually is.

And the story, as with all the best stories, turns out to be bigger and more interesting than anyone expected.

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Peter Wilhelm Lund and the Discovery That Would Not Stay Simple

Peter Wilhelm Lund arrived in Brazil in 1833 as a young Danish naturalist with a broad scientific curiosity and no particular expectation of making a discovery that would occupy scientific debate for the next two centuries.

He had come to study the natural history of the country — its plants, its animals, the geological record of its past.