[ExI] Genetic Evidence Overrules Ecocide Theory of Easter Island

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Genetic Evidence Overrules Ecocide Theory of Easter Island Once And For All
12 September 2024   By Carly Cassella

<https://www.sciencealert.com/genetic-evidence-overrules-ecocide-theory-of-easter-island-once-and-for-all>
Quotes:
The true story of Rapa Nui (named Easter Island by colonial Europeans)
is not one of self-inflicted population collapse, the new findings
suggest, but of cultural resilience.

Genetic analysis indicates that Rapanui's civilization was actually
growing until the 1860s, when Peruvian slave raids and subsequent
epidemics brought by European colonial activity decimated the island's
population to around 110 individuals.

A large body of archaeological and anthropological data has already
contradicted the ecocide theory of Rapa Nui. But this new research is
the first to undermine the story using ancient genomic data.
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The study was published in Nature.
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07881-4>
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They are saying that this proves that the famous story written by
Jared Diamond in his best-selling book Collapse (2005) never actually
happened.
Maybe humans have the sense not to commit national suicide after all.

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