Native Americans were exposed to Polynesians before Europeans

, one naturally wonders: Have these world-class explorers succeeded in reaching South America? A genome study of more than 800 modern Polynesians and Indians shows that they do.
July 8th, a study published in Nature presented new evidence of maritime contact between the Americas and eastern Polynesia during prehistoric times. Analysis of genetic data from modern and ancient individuals sheds light on Polynesian history and helps resolve a long-standing debate about the impact of Native Americans on Polynesians.
Because of conflicting conclusions from different genomic studies in the past, Polly
analyzed the genomes of more than 800 Polynesians and Native Americans with colleagues at the National Laboratory of Biodiversity Genomics in Mexico, and concluded that genetic exchanges occurred around 1200 A.D.
was in eastern Polynesia at the time, polynesians had a contact with a Native American community closest to what is now the Native American community off the coast of Colombia. However, Easter Island is not the first point of contact - as some studies have done in the past.
Past genomic studies have focused on contact on Easter Island because it is the closest inhabited pollinational Polly Polisi
to South America, suggesting that the exposure occurred earlier than previously expected and spread across polynesia, meaning that Native Americans had a genetic and cultural impact on the local population more than 500 years before Europeans arrived in Polynesia.
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