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The section is fully cited to reliable sources, and there is no mention nor suggestion of any land bridge. The evidence is that people arrived in the New World from the Old, however they may have travelled. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:33, 12 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hi, Astirmays. I think Chiswick Chap's objection to the addition was more consonant with its lack of sourcing rather than its importance. That said, I do agree that the effects of the guinea pig and domestic rabbit have had a rather minute effect on the Old World as compared to the influence of, say, cattle and chickens on the the New World. I would also like to apologize in advance for reverting your edit with a WP:NOTBROKEN tag; I misread your change by mistake. I still believe Chiswick Chap's choice of link is more appropriate, but I did want to apologize for citing the wrong policy in reverting you. Best, ThaesOfereode (talk) 00:04, 13 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thanks both. We are obliged to stay with the sources, we can't make stuff up. That said, small domestic animals may be nice but perhaps didn't change whole cultures and civilisations, as the larger exchange certainly did. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:28, 13 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
@ThaesOfereode: I got it. However, it was not the wild turkey or the ocellated turkey that was introduced to the Old World (or only very marginally, without spreading or for some zoos), but the domestic turkey, which is raised there on a large scale, even if much less so than chicken. Hence my latest modification (links and image).
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In 2014, a more thorough genetic study of the calabash plant refuted the theory that it was brought over to the Americas by Paleolithic hunter-gatherers during the original settlement of the New World. See [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3939861/ Transoceanic drift and the domestication of African bottle gourds in the Americas]. Seems like we should remove this assertion.Glendoremus (talk) 04:34, 27 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
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This article purports the European emigration to the New World was less than 5 million. The Wikipedia article European Emigration estimates it to be over 50 million. I'm much more inclined to believe 50 million. Msbensley (talk) 19:45, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
That article says "Roughly one and a half million Europeans settled in the New World during the period of 1500 and 1800." Are we reading the same text? Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:49, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
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