[Alas Babylon!]

And the Polynesians, originally from Taiwan, are blended in with the Melanesians they found along the way.

If you follow the people's looks from the Northwest to the Southeast, you'll see it:

Taiwanese

Philippino

East Indonesian

New Guinean

New Britain

Guadalcanal

Espiritu Santo

Fiji

Somoa

Tahitian

Easter Islander

Finally, Hawaiians

And Maoris from New Zealand

You can tell that the Taiwanese start out as a Mongoloid race, and as you go toward New Guinea, people get darker and their hair is more curly until at Papua New Guinea the people are very Australiod (proper name for the Australian Aborigines). Then the people to the East (New Britain- Espiritu Santo--Fiji-Samoa) from very dark and Australiod to more light and less Australiod, until the Polynesians at the very end point of their epic discoveries are the most mixed and neither of their original races.

[JimSEA]

That’s quite a well put together documentation. Yes, the Negritos that remain are in isolated spots as hill tribes or islanders. Others like today’s Thai are recent arrivals from Southern China and the high river valleys of Vietnam. Even more recent are the numerous hill tribes from Tibet’s foothills. The Mon who are scattered throughout came originally from India. Quite a mix.