New genetic research on remote Pacific islands yields surprising findings on world's earliest seafar

New genetic research from remote islands in the Pacific offers fresh insights into the ancestry and culture of the world's earliest seafarers, including family structure, social customs, and the ancestral populations of the people living there today. Guam (pictured) was one of the Pacific islands that scientists believe maintained a matrilocal  population structure some 2,500 to 3,500 years ago [Credit: David Burdick, NOAA] The work, described in the journal Science, reveals...