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From: Pat Oliver <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Red and Blonde Hair and the South Pacific
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:34:28 -0500
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>But their hair is the only thing non-Negrito (?) abut them. Would
>admixture only affect their hair? Compare them to African Americans,
>for example. African Americans have significant N. European
>ancestry. Their skin and other skeletal features exhibit evidence of
>admixture, but not the color of their hair (generally speaking).
>Furthermore, these Islanders seem to have a higher frequency of red
>and blonde hair than many Europeans.
>
>
>- Jan
>
><Snip>



>Read the accounts of the voyages of Captain Cook from the 1700s. And
>never forget the whaling ships etc of the 1800s whose crews visited
>many ports in the South Pacific, so to speak. Most of these men were
>from the British Isles. Other earlier and later expeditions may have
>been from other countries.
>--
>Pat Oliver (Willis P. Oliver)
>
>

Obviously the issue can be debated ad nauseam without benefit of any
sort of hard data. I suggest it be shelved until some of these South
Pacific Islanders are Y-DNA tested and even then I suspect it would
not be resolved. Pitcairn Island is not a good example.
--
Pat Oliver


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