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Originally Posted by ardeegee
The term "land bridge" is misleading, seeming to imply a narrow passage between the two continents. But it was actually thousands of miles wide-- North America and Asia were for all practical porpoises (and seals) a single continent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas
Asking why people would migrate for Asia to America is no more meaningful than asking why people would migrate from any point x in Asia to any point y in Asia. |
Maybe you don't think it has meaning, but I do and I'm sure others do as well, particularly depending on the conditions at the time.
There is a lot of unknowns about the populating of the Americas. It is all very interesting actually.