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Hi, everybody.

From Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.

I'm Patrick Weiman.

Thanks for joining me.

So in last week's episode, we talked about the early migrations to the Americas.

This is a complex subject, it's one that changes pretty fast.

In fact, right after I recorded that episode, literally within hours, a pair of new papers

came out presenting pretty firm evidence that there was human habitation here thousands

of years earlier than we previously knew.

So luckily, we've got a wonderful guest here with us today who is a specialist on this

evolving and fascinating field and she is going to help us understand just how and when

people came to the Americas.

She's an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas and her academic

work focuses on the genetic history of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

She's written widely on science for publications like The Huffington Post, Forbes and the Guardian,

and she's got a book coming out next year entitled Origin on the Deep Genetic Past of the

Americas, which I absolutely cannot wait to read.

Professor Jennifer Rat, thank you so much for joining me today.

Thanks so much for having me on Patrick.

You're actually a two time guest.

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