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There actually is some evidence. I remembered this article but I’m no expert. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dna-search-first-americans-links-ama

• AlotOfReading 5y ago
  The authors' speculation that this was due to both populations originating in east Asia eventually turned out to be true once further work was done on sequencing Tianyuan man [1]. It's not indicative of Pleistocene trans-pacific contacts. [1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.030 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.030