[Graymatter]

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."

[muawiyah]

What it means is the writer failed to properly copy down what it was the researchers actually said.

Alternatively the reason there's a link is the guys stayed home to hang around the Upper Paleolithic equivalent of a coffee house and sent their daughters and and wives overseas to earn hard money.

This custom is still practiced throughout the region.

It readily accounts for the absence of "local" Y-chromosomes.

[Question_Assumptions]

Anyone care to explain this reasoning?

Some people in the social sciences want very badly to find evidence of societies dominated by women?

[SunkenCiv]

There's no reasoning to explain. The men moved around by sea, and plunked down their families. The differences could be explained by amplification due to isolation as well as by waves of conquest.

mtDNA studies are GIGO.