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Fast trains, slow boats, and the ancestry of the Polynesian islanders.

Science progress - 1 Jan 2001

Oppenheimer S, Richards M

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The question of the origins of the Polynesians has, for over 200 years, been the subject of adventure science. Since Captain Cook's first speculations on these isolated Pacific islanders, their language affiliations have been seen as an essential clue to the solution. The geographic and numeric centre of gravity of the Austronesian language family is in island Southeast Asia, which was therefore originally seen...

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PMID: 11732155
DOI: 10.3184/003685001783238989
PMCID: PMC10361203

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