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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Could Humans Have Made it to North America 130,000 Years Ago?

Exactly when and how the first people populated the final continental frontiers of North and South America has been a subject of debate for more than a century. While there is consensus that human beings were present in the Americas around 15,000 years ago - some experts now believe estimates of our arrival may be off. Around 100,000 years off. Dr. Jennifer Raff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas.