If people have been in the Americas for thousands of years, and homo-sapiens originate from Africa, how did they get there?

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If people have been in the Americas for thousands of years, and homo-sapiens originate from Africa, how did they get there?

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During the last ice age there was a land bridge between Alaska and Asia until around 11,000 years ago. The leading theory is that the ancestors of the indigenous peoples of the Americas simply walked across.