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How The Sweet Potato Crossed The Pacific Way Before The Europeans Did NPR (blog) By analyzing the DNA of 1,245 sweet potato varieties from Asia and the Americas, researchers have found a genetic smoking gun that proves the root vegetable made it all the way to Polynesia from the Andes — nearly 400 years before Inca gold was a … Sweet Potato Genes Say Polynesians, Not Europeans, Spread the Tubers Across … Polynesian seafarers discovered America long before Europeans, says DNA study Kumara origin points to pan-Pacific voyage |
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