A Genetic Study Reveals How Polynesia Was Settled
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2 min readMore than a thousand years ago, seafarers traversed large distances in the Pacific Ocean to reach the last habitable region to have been settled on Earth.
The first voyages were from Samoa to Fiji and Tonga
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