Sweet Potato DNA Challenges Theory That Polynesians Beat Columbus to America

April 15, 2018

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Christopher Columbus reached the New World in 1492, but some experts say Polynesian explorers beat him to it. There’s little evidence to support this fringe theory, but scientists have pointed to the presence of sweet potatoes, a plant thought to be native to the Americas, in the South Pacific as potential proof. A genetic analysis of the popular tuberous root and its relatives has now effectively quashed this hypothesis.

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Sweet Potato DNA Challenges Theory That Polynesians Beat Columbus to America

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