In 2023, nearly one third of the adult population in Ecuador was involved in start-ups, making it the highest in the Americas.
Despite broad agreement that the Americas were initially populated via Beringia, the land bridge that connected far northeast Asia with northwestern North America during the Pleistocene epoch, when and how the peopling of the Americas occurred remains unresolved1,2,3,4,5. Analyses of human remains ...
Each of these population expansions largely replaced the earlier inhabitants, and ultimately generated the mosaic genetic make-up of contemporary peoples who inhabit a vast area across northern Eurasia and the Americas. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access ...
Latin-Americans are fascinating cases of hybrid/admixed populations that evolved over relatively short periods of time30,37. Peopling of the Americas likely started 12–18,000 years ago38,39 by migration waves coming from North and South East Asia30, following coastal and continental routes41. ...
Expanding longevity among the elderly and fertility decline are contributing to an aging US population. The number of persons 65 years or older is projecte
When Irish-Americans Attacked Canada—With the White House’s Blessing These Civil War veterans orchestrated one of the most audacious acts of the Fenian Brotherhood in the Americas. Read more How Stereotypes of the Irish Evolved From ‘Criminals’ to Cops One immigrant group’s journey from outsi...
A University of Kansas anthropological geneticist is part of an international research team working to shed light upon one of the unanswered questions concerning the peopling of the New World: Namely, what was the size of the original founding population of the Americas?
Geographical and historical treatment of Haiti, including maps and statistics as well as a survey of its people, economy, and government. Haiti was the second country in the Americas, after the United States, to free itself from colonial rule. Its capita
The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is native to the Americas and is known to attack a large number of crops. More than 350 plant species have been reported as host plants, meaning that the fall armyworm causes significant damage to econ...
Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene1–5. Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced 317 genomes—mainly from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods—from acros