Five hundred years ago, Hernán Cortés walked into Tenochtitlan, capital of an empire of twenty-five million people. Within a century, twenty-two million were dead. This video traces the genetic record of that catastrophe through landmark studies from Stanford, INMEGEN, the Max Planck Institute, and Harvard, decoding the admixture pattern of the modern Mexican genome, the four Indigenous substructures still visible today, and what the chromosomes record about one of the largest demographic events in human history.
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