the movements of Polynesians across pacific Islands a couple of thousand years ago
In a nice coincidence, I read this review not a day after hearing about a genomic analysis study that did exactly this (published this September). It used the chromosome recombination idea to estimate when island populations split, and a different method comparing genetic variants to find which islands produced which new settler populations.
For those interested, here is the study, and here an article from Ars Technica summarizing it.
In a nice coincidence, I read this review not a day after hearing about a genomic analysis study that did exactly this (published this September). It used the chromosome recombination idea to estimate when island populations split, and a different method comparing genetic variants to find which islands produced which new settler populations.
For those interested, here is the study, and here an article from Ars Technica summarizing it.