Polynesian Origins: DNA, Migrations and History. My spin on this video. Tim Tufuga
Very accurate, except for the Eastern Polynesian settlement dates which ought to be earlier, since the descendants of the Samoans who had settled, modern Society Islands, and French Polynesia to Hawaii by 400AD. Also, the Rapa Nui settlers would have been able to travel to South America and not the other way round and since there was a sudden disappearance and entropic demise of the Rapa Nui Islanders it may be explained with the Islanders migrating to South America, and had since become assimilated into the local Indian cultures over the centuries? Always open to conjecture. But, overall, I agree with the initial Taiwan ground zero point of departure. Might I add, the 1949 KMT invasion from the mainland has forced the Indigenous people, Austronesians/Polynesians, to the hinterland of Formosa (Taiwan), and well away from the Chinese, from the more urbanised populations. Most of the ancient Polynesians/Austronesians have obviously assimilated into the Chinese DNA as the dominant racia...