Scientists turn to ancient DNA to understand the history of Easter Island, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean also known as ...
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), is one of the most remote inhabited ...
New DNA analysis adds to growing research indicating the famous Pacific island did not collapse from overuse of resources ...
A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the ...
A new study puts what a researcher calls the "final nail in the coffin" regarding a longstanding narrative about Rapa Nui, ...
Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), also known as Easter Island, is one of the most isolated inhabited ...
The new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries ...
Genomes from people native to the island show that its original population was part of the Polynesian expansion across the ...
(CNN) — Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the ...
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with its gigantic statues and treeless ... However, previous studies looking at small amounts of DNA from ancient Polynesians had rejected the hypothesis that transpacific ...