Allan Shumaker Wrote:
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> "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Malagasy people of
> Madagascar carry the genes from ancestors in both
> nearby East Africa and also distant Borneo
> suggesting a big migration from Asia back to
> Africa 2,000 year ago, British researchers
> reported on Tuesday."
>
>
This is interesting but hardly news. It has been well established for a long time that Madagascar was settled by people from the Indonesian region bith linguistically and by the presence of a whole suite of Asian plants such as bananas, sugar cane and Asian yam.
Bernard