Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
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Re: Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
#2My limited understanding is that the genomics community thinks the authors are full of it. Given that the lead author is Ioannidis, I'm sure that's the case.
Re: Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
#3My limited understanding is that the genomics community thinks the authors are full of it. Given that the lead author is Ioannidis, I'm sure that's the case.
Nature is peer reviewed right? Who in the genomics community is saying that this is BS?
Re: Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
#4My limited understanding is that the genomics community thinks the authors are full of it. Given that the lead author is Ioannidis, I'm sure that's the case.
No comment about the paper itself, but note that the first author is Alexander Ioannidis, not the John Ioannidis of Covid infamy.
Re: Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
#5My limited understanding is that the genomics community thinks the authors are full of it. Given that the lead author is Ioannidis, I'm sure that's the case.
This is nature. The most prestigious scientific publication. The study was peer reviewed by people who do know what they are talking about. Not everything is a blog.
Re: Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
#6My limited understanding is that the genomics community thinks the authors are full of it. Given that the lead author is Ioannidis, I'm sure that's the case.
Your sole contribution to this discourse is to bad talk someone while providing absolutely no evidence? I have no dog in this fight. I have no idea how solid the article is. But that’s why I’m not trashing it.
Re: Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
#7I'd be highly unsurprised that Polynesians and pre-Columbus Americans met, it's about the same distance from the Marquesas to Hawaii as from Easter Island to Chile, and it's 1.5x further from the Marquesas to New Zealand.
While the paper is about the admixture predating settlement of Rapanui, it's quite possible it was known of beforehand.
Re: Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
#8> Our analyses suggest strongly that a single contact event occurred in eastern Polynesia, before the settlement of Rapa Nui, between Polynesian individuals and a Native American group most closely related to the indigenous inhabitants of present-day Colombia.
Re: Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
#9My limited understanding is that the genomics community thinks the authors are full of it. Given that the lead author is Ioannidis, I'm sure that's the case.
Totally different person. Same last name. Probably not related.
Re: Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement
#10Yesterday’s HN thread on the NYTimes article covering the same Nature paper - Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 years ago: