My wife and I watched this video by @Historysmilo about whether or not Polynesians reached the Americas before Columbus and it was AMAZING! Makes me want to do a Timeline of Oceania! https://t.co/nPyHiwAduo https://t.co/ZM6ntKXMQ5
Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks.
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Several discussions highlight specific topics from the publication, such as the potential Polynesian contact with South America and the implications for understanding human migration patterns. Phrases like 'pre-Columbian contact' and 'fascinating overview' illustrate users' enthusiasm, while the tone often reflects inquiry and moderate skepticism, as seen in comments questioning the study's conclusions or methods. The variety in reactions helps to paint a complex picture of the topic's significance.
Most discussions show moderate support for the claims made in the publication, indicating some reservations about specific details.
There’s a high level of curiosity and excitement surrounding the findings, especially regarding Polynesians' historical contacts.
While users actively share thoughts and related content, the depth of analyses varies from casual mentions to thoughtful commentary about implications.
Many believe the article sheds light on significant historical questions, suggesting that the research could reshape our understanding of Pacific migration.
Abstract in brief
- Polynesia was settled through incredible voyages across the vast ocean, but the specific timeline and sequence of island settlement are still debated among researchers.
- Researchers used genetic data from 430 individuals across 21 Pacific island populations to piece together the migration history of Polynesians.
- Their findings outline a pattern of migration starting in Samoa, spreading to various islands in a specific order, and culminating in major cultural sites like Easter Island around AD 1200.
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Les invitamos a leer el artículo, recientemente publicado, del Dr. @morestrada: "Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks"
Video: Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence: Papers cited on youtube! (H/T @Aleksj) https://t.co/KCZ7Bll4D1
so happy someone has made a comprehensive video about this subject! some iffy pronunciations aside, a fascinating overview + also contains one of the best accessible rundowns of polynesian origins that i've seen
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Moreover, the evidence points primarily to South America; claims of sightings or sustained contact with North America remain speculative and unsupported by robust data. https://t.co/rtutUnO9hP https://t.co/SVTuVlyuig Trinder’s assertion, lacking any cited documentation or 17/
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Why did they not include New Zealand in this study? Could it have been politically motivated to not participate? Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/rMZm4KOnvJ via @YouTube
@jonathanaplumb I have had a similar thought before, even recently... https://t.co/nQNs86Pnmp
@furocansau @Chongxi_Bai Dudo mucho que eso este aceptado. Aqui un video con que trata sobre evidencias reales de contacto Polinesia-America. Muy interesante: https://t.co/YIrjIPheQk
@gutarno @PutoMikel Hay evidencias de contacto con América. Solo como apunte. https://t.co/YIrjIPheQk
@85TXrkPyXkcAW6f @fasc1nate https://t.co/tPxvoOrcGu
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Good video from archaeology/anthropology/human evolution YouTubers, Stefan Milo, for anyone curious: https://t.co/DBtCtyZPXc
@henri_mourant Stefan Milo also has an excellent video on this https://t.co/EQg5nuUP9t
RT @sarenc: @WeatherBrew Yeah! Saw a video about that recently. https://t.co/6sfB7pbFE8
RT @LawrenceCrimmi1: @hsu_steve Interesting but not conclusive. Seems possible https://t.co/U9CNs6SthQ
@WeatherBrew Yeah! Saw a video about that recently. https://t.co/6sfB7pbFE8
@hsu_steve Interesting but not conclusive. Seems possible https://t.co/U9CNs6SthQ
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/WISPUMKJ2o via @YouTube
@MungoManic @Empty_America https://t.co/TsVroqzIcE Thank me later
@jsudaka ¿Atahualpa!?
RT @braillecollage: @regina_wtf @ASPertierra @Historysmilo 's video https://t.co/GXRXKfg6n6
@regina_wtf @ASPertierra @Historysmilo 's video https://t.co/GXRXKfg6n6
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/fMaM42yJ8b via @YouTube
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/7s0qhQxi58
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/WPhFX5W58c via @YouTube
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@slobodanchudjak Yup, its been known for a bit that pacific islanders and south amercians had some level of contact. Sweet potatoes were spread to pacific islands before European contact and there's substantial genetic evidence too https://t.co/vfLLY5KyNt
@spaceghost Most of @Historysmilo videos aren't long form but archeology and human population change thru studying archaic DNA is fascinating. https://t.co/P7Udm6qezf
Evidencia genética de ancestro polinesio en los indígenas de la costa hoy colombiana.
@02Rpj23936 @iraqi_pessoa Yea ! https://t.co/5qXm8Q2feX https://t.co/Xwzk1Lvzug https://t.co/kv1p86FWDw https://t.co/Xwzk1Lvzug https://t.co/yrtWBlneVz
@iraqi_pessoa https://t.co/PFLEUBWIPc This was a decent video on the subject
@digisoul3 Youd like this then :) https://t.co/CbuoURblRZ
@VarsH6J this is informative for your questions https://t.co/K1rAxStly2
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Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/xQqWbtKCt8 via @YouTube #Taiwan to #Americas
RT @DiracGhost: From the archeo-genetic evidence, the first Polynesians were from the island of Taiwan. Don't tell that to a certain dictat…
From the archeo-genetic evidence, the first Polynesians were from the island of Taiwan. Don't tell that to a certain dictator. Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/hMpXh4QZNL
Did Polynesians reach America? DNA evidence Stefan Milo https://t.co/WEpN8nxqI4
@amix011 i dream of the ocean https://t.co/w5IwJFVbkL
Video: Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence: Papers cited on youtube! (H/T @Aleksj) https://t.co/KCZ7Bll4D1
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/oSkNEqCATt via @YouTube
@chifaentiffanys El arqueólogo, antropólogo y divulgador Stefan Milosavljevich hizo un youtube con la evidencia genética que relaciona América con Polinesia https://t.co/lMwvnoSjZU
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/uYJczLUOnd via @YouTube
Sweet potato called kumara in Polynesian language .@Historysmilo My name s Devkumar & me #tamilian I saw your video in YouTube. Please research #anicent #tamil people travel to #America called Polynesian travel everywhere in world. https://t.co/NhmBovgvgt
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Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/ueBAlIqwWr via @YouTube
@SperglerAcolyte Are you taking the bet, are you under the impression that the distance between Easter island and coastal south america is the same as Africa to the Atlantic. Archeo genetics disprove your mid wit bullshit. Barely any genetics from poly to south america https://t.co/F73vQ46dUd
Stefan Milosavljevich (@Historysmilo) has a nice archaeology youtube channel. Here he goes through recent genetic evidence for Polynesians reaching South America 800 years ago. @steve_hide https://t.co/2A5UdrZa5M
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/HzXwSer3ra via @YouTube
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/Az5FhCWFAi via @YouTube
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/lf2T2WV4ZP via @YouTube
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/vybS3D8IAT via @YouTube
DNA is pretty amazeballs aye?! https://t.co/tKfkCaJMWm
RT @usefulcharts: My wife and I watched this video by @Historysmilo about whether or not Polynesians reached the Americas before Columbus a…
RT @Vitorinox11: @periodistan_ A quien le gusta el tema: https://t.co/0zE8BLzrtK
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@periodistan_ A quien le gusta el tema: https://t.co/0zE8BLzrtK
@usefulcharts Thank you! YOu totally could do that especially with this paper "Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks"
My wife and I watched this video by @Historysmilo about whether or not Polynesians reached the Americas before Columbus and it was AMAZING! Makes me want to do a Timeline of Oceania! https://t.co/nPyHiwAduo https://t.co/ZM6ntKXMQ5
The boat building prowess of the Polynesian people is inspiration. Through population genomics it looks like they had contact with indigenous South Americans. https://t.co/r1PgTr7W9T
RT @Historysmilo: https://t.co/EEGv9fMQ3G
uma das coisas que eu acho mais maneiras é a teoria que os polinésios passaram pela américa do sul vários séculos antes dos europeus, e parece ter uma confirmação genética desse evento https://t.co/kQQzmZXHY3
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/VrtbfHXsF5 via @YouTube
Did Polynesians Reach America? DNA evidence https://t.co/4fAxlCfhkZ via @YouTube
"Lingüistica, Genética, Arqueología y tradición oral se unen hoy para hacernos dar cuenta que además del estrecho de Bering, los primeros habitantes de sudamérica probablemente llegaron en barco desde las islas polinésias." https://t.co/CRoao55HR8
Did Polynesians Reach America? https://t.co/A5atbb4zGX via @YouTube
so happy someone has made a comprehensive video about this subject! some iffy pronunciations aside, a fascinating overview + also contains one of the best accessible rundowns of polynesian origins that i've seen
Did Polynesians Reach America? https://t.co/ueBAlIqwWr via @YouTube
45 minute vlog on DNA research that implies that polynesian & south americans met and mixed some 800 years ago - in the pacific islands or in south america - - that's after the beringian migration - but pre-columbian https://t.co/cjYU4ogfo3
https://t.co/EZgTirM39h This is a very good video!!
Did Polynesians Reach America? https://t.co/3OesgFga7l via @YouTube
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Did Polynesians Reach America? https://t.co/3OesgFga7l via @YouTube
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@whitejsakai this is actually pretty mindblowing it looks like they definitively proved indigenous south american contact with polynesians happened pre-colonization! https://t.co/rfQgGZqrAi
RT @opardor: ¿Estuvieron los polinesios en Colombia alrededor del año 1200? ¿Cómo terminó alguien relacionado con la cultura Zenú teniendo…
Did Polynesians Reach America? https://t.co/HMXgg6IhO3 via @YouTube #well...
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*Excellent* video about an excellent genetics paper from 2021 that I think finally, properly clinches the pre-Columbian contact between Polynesians and South Americans. Really fantastic work, very compelling! https://t.co/M6BpX133ai
¿Estuvieron los polinesios en Colombia alrededor del año 1200? ¿Cómo terminó alguien relacionado con la cultura Zenú teniendo descendencia a través de varias islas de la Polinesia siglos antes de Colón? https://t.co/OO0Tu40oSR https://t.co/eFfVQJtlnA https://t.co/sTrNLUDaVb
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Really interesting video about the genetic ancestral lineage of Polynesians! Most interesting is how it lines up with oral history! Check it out! https://t.co/skGRiqTcCp
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@ki676love @loveEveryone321 @HaertelJoshua @Notamemeaccoun @JaredBerg2 @LDSdiscussions Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks | Nature https://t.co/6orUJlUIvn
RT @uga_langebio: Les invitamos a leer el artículo, recientemente publicado, del Dr. @morestrada: "Paths and timings of the peopling of Pol…
@joe_pickrell @ras_nielsen @3rdreviewer @jkpritch @pickrell If there are not many introgression events & they are not too old, it is better to mask them using local ancestry & then make the tree on just the frequencies of the remaining variants. Also directionality can be obtained in that case via ψ https://t.co/BgZBc9Qo0G
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#考古学のおやつ 3/3 →cf. Alexander G. Ioannidis et al. "Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks" Nature volume 597, pages522–526 (2021) [Nature (@nature)] https://t.co/lShB6kfTtP
Les invitamos a leer el artículo, recientemente publicado, del Dr. @morestrada: "Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks"
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Genetics reveal how humans island-hopped to settle remote Pacific - The Guardian: * Genetics reveal how humans island-hopped to settle remote Pacific The Guardian * Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks https://t.co/ZloJvjNuLo * DNA… https://t.co/isdjdW4MzU
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