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Gene study suggests Polynesians came from Taiwan
Reuters ^
| Mon Jul 4, 2005
| Anon
Posted on 07/05/2005 6:34:19 AM PDT by Pharmboy
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Interesting stuff. DNA is providing great data for this kind of people tracking.
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posted on
07/05/2005 6:34:21 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: thefactor; blam; SunkenCiv; martin_fierro; aculeus
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posted on
07/05/2005 6:35:23 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(There is no positive correlation between the ability to write, act, sing or dance and being right)
To: Pharmboy
i just knew that chiang had kicked them off the island!
just kidding!
do not wet your panties.
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posted on
07/05/2005 6:36:15 AM PDT
by
ken21
(it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
To: Pharmboy
Now the Communist Chinese government will claim that all the islands of the pacific are actually China's possession and call them rebel provinces, just like Taiwan.
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posted on
07/05/2005 6:39:11 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jazzy
(Bumper sticker "Martyrs or Marines: Who do YOU think will get the virgins?")
To: Mr. Jazzy
Interesting point...and not more than a few clicks away from what could actually happen.
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posted on
07/05/2005 6:40:45 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(There is no positive correlation between the ability to write, act, sing or dance and being right)
To: Mr. Jazzy
![](http://www.indigenousfestival.org/images/Children.jpg)
Indigenous Taiwanese Kids
![](http://www.mahina.com/leg02/graphic/pc4.jpg)
Polynesian Children
Yeah--I can buy it.
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posted on
07/05/2005 6:49:11 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(There is no positive correlation between the ability to write, act, sing or dance and being right)
To: Pharmboy
So where did the "first" woman live? Do the scientist know?
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posted on
07/05/2005 6:52:22 AM PDT
by
sandydipper
(Less government is best government!)
To: Pharmboy
Mitochondrial DNA...provides a kind of genetic clock
Their findings suggest that Taiwanese aboriginal populations have been genetically isolated from mainland Chinese for between 10,000 and 20,000 years...Some clock.
To: Pharmboy
Oh great my Brother in Law is going to crap - now that China has a legal right to Hawaii - So much for the self Governance proposal from Senator Akaka ("Akaka" that's Klingon isn't it?)
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posted on
07/05/2005 6:59:52 AM PDT
by
kentj
To: Graymatter
Indigenous Taiwanese tribes may be a branch of the ancestors Polynesians are descended from.
The genetic data suggests two possibilities.
The first is that Polynesians are descendants of the Taiwanese tribes.
The second is that the Taiwanese tribes and the Polynesians branched from the same mother stock around the same time, such that the mitochondrial DNA would be indistinguishable between the parent stocks for both branches.
A third, far less probable, possibility is that the genetic similarities between the mitochondrial DNA of both branches occurred separately, and such similarities are merely coincidence... Chances being anywhere from no chance in Hell, to no chance in purgatory, of such a coincidence ever occurring naturally in nature.
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posted on
07/05/2005 7:03:24 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: Pharmboy
If the current day Polynesians originated in Taiwan, what happened to the original inhabitants of these South Sea islands? Probably exterminated by the invading Taiwanese. This mean, someone is going to have to pay reparations to someone. But who and to whom?
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posted on
07/05/2005 7:04:38 AM PDT
by
quadrant
To: coconutt2000
4th possibility, the Taiwanese tribes are descended from the Polynesians.
I wonder what sort of culture the Taiwanese tribes have? Any similarities?
To: quadrant
Last I heard, there was no evidence of any human occupation of Polynesia before the Polynesians.
To: coconutt2000
A third, far less probable, possibility is thatYou left out the fourth and even far less probable, that both populations are human/alien hybrids, using the same human and alien stock...
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posted on
07/05/2005 7:21:14 AM PDT
by
Paradox
(Deep Impact, taking a shot RIGHT at the Tempel...)
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
07/05/2005 7:23:06 AM PDT
by
Spunky
("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
To: Pharmboy
So much for the late Thor Heyerdahl's theories. Too bad, I liked them.
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posted on
07/05/2005 7:32:53 AM PDT
by
Capriole
(I don't have any problems that couldn't be solved by more chocolate or more ammunition)
To: Capriole
So much for the late Thor Heyerdahl's theories. Too bad, I liked them. Even more interesting will be the Mormon response as their thesis has populations coming from the middle east.
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posted on
07/05/2005 7:40:41 AM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Modernist American Art in the West)
To: Pharmboy
Anyone care to explain this reasoning? "No Y chromosome link has been found between the early residents of the island of Formosa and the Polynesians, which could suggest early Oceanic societies organized around wives and mothers."
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/05/2005 7:46:02 AM PDT
by
Fractal Trader
(Free Republic Energized - - The power of Intelligence on the Internet! Checked by Correkt Spel (TM))
To: Paradox
That's the "Evil Doctor Yakob" thesis the Nation of Islam tries to peddle. Still, may be something to it, eh?!
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posted on
07/05/2005 7:52:39 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
(/sarcasm and invective)
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