Jose de Acosta
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Jose de Acosta (1540-1600) was a 16th-century Jesuit missionary in Latin America who is best known for writing Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias, which was quite popular and translated into various languages. In it, more than a century before Europeans learned of the Bering Strait, Acosta hypothesized that Latin America's indigenous peoples had migrated from Asia to Latin America. He also divided them into three barbian categories.
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