Understanding any part of that dispersal contributes to understanding the whole.

The Anzick genome’s evidence for the Asian origin of Clovis people — confirming the Beringian dispersal model — is relevant not just to understanding the Americas but to understanding the full pattern of human global dispersal.

It is one piece of a picture that includes the dispersal of modern humans through southern Asia to Australia and Melanesia, through central Asia to Europe, through Siberia to eastern Asia, and eventually through Beringia to the Americas.

The Clovis people were the last of the great founding migrations to reach their destination — the last major landmass to be settled by modern humans in the global expansion from Africa.