News about peopling of the Americas

GENES, FOSSILS, TOOLS...The last issue of "Evolution: Education and Outreach" (June 2011) is dedicated to the evolutionary theory and its application to New World settlement studies (by the way, I do recommend this journal for those interested in learning and teaching evolution !!). Rolando Gonzalez-Jose is the guest editor of the issue and he is the current president of the Biological Anthropology Association of Argentina (Asociacion de Antropologia Biologica Argentina). Sadly, I do not have too much time to teach this topic (the peopling of the Americas) in my courses (ANTH 202: Introduction to Biological Anthropology; and ANTH 303: Human Origins) but probably, I will reconsider that. I think that this topic is dealing with an interesting debate and can bring a productive discussion into any introductory or advance course about human evolution. It seems that we (or maybe I was the only one?) did not pay too much attention to what happened during the Holocene when teaching introductory courses. Ironic, my research focuses on the Holocene....or human evolutionary immunology (human health) after the agriculture revolution.