Archaeologists, linguists, and geneticists have spent decades pondering how humans settled the Pacific islands.The ancestors of today's Polynesians and Micronesians were probably East Asians who quickly island-hopped through Near Oceania—what is now Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands—a new genetic study suggests.
The study also reveals that Melanesian peoples (those from Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Fiji) harbor incredible genetic diversity—evidence of tens of thousands of years of relative isolation and a series of small migrations from Asia.
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New discovery found that all human beings descend from Africa. It seems that all of us have common root. Why should we discriminate each other then...
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