There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option $1,2,3$, or $4$) the following sentence would best fit.
Sentence: The discovery helps to explain archeological similarities between the Paleolithic peoples of China, Japan, and the Americas.
Paragraph: The researchers also uncovered an unexpected genetic link between Native Americans and Japanese people. _(1)_ . During the deglaciation period, another group branched out from northern coastal China and travelled to Japan.
_(2)_. "We were surprised to find that this ancestral source also contributed to the Japanese gene pool, especially the indigenous Ainus," says Li. _(3)_. They shared similarities in how they crafted stemmed projectile points for arrowheads and spears.
_(4)_. "This suggests that the Pleistocene connection among the Americas, China, and Japan was not confined to culture but also to genetics," says senior author Qing-Peng Kong, an evolutionary geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Option $3$
- Option $1$
- Option $4$
- Option $2$