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Easter Island DNA proves the population did not collapse
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), is one of the most remote inhabited ...
Ancient DNA from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) refutes best-selling population collapse theory
Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), also known as Easter Island, is one of the most isolated inhabited ...
New evidence upends contentious Easter Island theory, scientists say
Scientists turn to ancient DNA to understand the history of Easter Island, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean also known as ...
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DNA suggests that the Rapa Nui arrived in the Americas two centuries before Columbus
DNA extracted from 15 corpses stored in a Paris museum has yielded a monumental surprise: the Rapa Nui, inhabitants of Easter ...
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Ancient DNA From Rapa Nui Shows Polynesians And Native Americans Interbred
The population of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, interbred with Native Americans before Europeans arrived, despite ...
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Easter Island's population never collapsed, but it did have contact with Native Americans, DNA study suggests
A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the ...
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Easter Island’s Ancient Population Never Faced Ecological Collapse, Suggests Another Study
New DNA analysis adds to growing research indicating the famous Pacific island did not collapse from overuse of resources ...
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Using Genetics to Reveal the History of Rapa Nui
The fascinating and remote Rapa Nui or Easter Island, is ~2,000 km from the nearest Polynesian island and 3,700 km west of South America. | Earth And The Environment ...
Genome Sequencing Provides Latest Evidence Against Easter Island’s Societal Collapse
The new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries ...
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Famed Pacific island’s population 'crash' debunked by ancient DNA
Genome analysis adds to mounting evidence against the idea that Rapa Nui’s population collapsed owing to overexploitation of ...
Old Easter Island genomes show no sign of a population collapse
Genomes from people native to the island show that its original population was part of the Polynesian expansion across the ...
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Ancient people of Easter Island made return trips to South America
DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was ...