Analysis of DNA from early settlers of the pacific overturns leading genetic model
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 08:06
in Biology & Nature
A scientific team analyzed DNA from people who lived in Tonga and Vanuatu between 2,500 and 3,100 years ago, and were among the first people to live in these islands. The results overturn the leading genetic model for this last great movement of humans to unoccupied but habitable lands.