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Native South Americans were early inhabitants of Polynesia

DNA analysis of Polynesians and Native South Americans has revealed an ancient genetic signature that resolves a long-running debate over Polynesian origins and early contacts between the two populations.
  1. Paul Wallin

    1. Paul Wallin is in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Campus Gotland, Visby SE-621 67, Sweden.

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For many years, scholars have speculated about how Polynesia was initially populated. Writing in Nature, Ioannidis et al.1 describe a genetic approach that they used to address the issue of Polynesian origins and interactions.

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Nature 583, 524-525 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01983-5

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