Original sentence: 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.Jose de Acosta (1540-1600) was a 17th-century Jesuit missionary who is best known for writing Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias, which was quite popular and translated into various languages
Edited sentence: In it, he set forth the claim that American Indians were from Northeast Asia.Jose de Acosta was a 17th-century Jesuit missionary who wrote Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias