Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds
Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide — an act of deliberate, environmental destruction by humans. But new studies ...
Rapa Nui genomes restore the real history of an old, troubled people
Discover the truth behind the mysterious history of Rapa Nui, challenging the myth of overpopulation and ecological collapse.
What Happened to Easter Island? New Research Refutes Best-Selling Population Collapse Theory
New research reveals that there was contact with Indigenous Americans before European arrival. Rapa Nui, also known as Te ...
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Easter Island DNA proves the population did not collapse
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 ...
Genome Sequencing Provides Latest Evidence Against Easter Island’s Societal Collapse
The new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries ...
Old Easter Island genomes show no sign of a population collapse
Genomes from people native to the island show that its original population was part of the Polynesian expansion across the ...
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Easter Island's population never collapsed, but it did have contact with Native Americans, DNA study suggests
A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the ...
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Ancient DNA From Rapa Nui Shows Polynesians And Native Americans Interbred
The population of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, interbred with Native Americans before Europeans arrived, despite ...
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Using Genetics to Reveal the History of Rapa Nui
The fascinating and remote Rapa Nui or Easter Island, is ~2,000 km from the nearest Polynesian island and 3,700 km west of South America. | Earth And The Environment ...
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DNA suggests that the Rapa Nui arrived in the Americas two centuries before Columbus
DNA extracted from 15 corpses stored in a Paris museum has yielded a monumental surprise: the Rapa Nui, inhabitants of Easter ...
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Ancient people of Easter Island made return trips to South America
DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was ...
Easter Island study disproves popular theory about creation of its famous statues
The widespread deforestation believed to have been caused by the Rapa Nui people to build the towering Easter Island statues ...