Channel: Masaman

Category: Education

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Description: Who exactly is a Pacific Islander and is this term even accurate to describe a real "race" anyways? The Pacific is certainly a place of wonder and mystery, covering over 1/3 of our planet's surface, but contains some of the world's biggest mysteries, such as just where exactly the Australian Aboriginals, Papuans, Melanesians, Micronesians, Polynesians and other dark-skinned peoples of Oceania originated from. In today's video, we're going to be discussing the origins of this interesting group of people, who their ancestors were and how they got there and how they've been impacted in the modern era by contact with other people groups. Thanks for watching! Sources: journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.0040019 joshuaproject.net/affinity_blocs/19 nytimes.com/2008/01/18/world/asia/18islands.html sciencealert.com/pacific-islanders-appear-to-be-carrying-the-dna-of-an-unknown-human-species ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2211537