<p><pre><code> Now, the question is, how did the Rapanui make contact with Indigenous Americans on what Diamond once called "the world's most isolated scrap of habitable land" – located roughly 1,800 km (1,100 miles) from the closest inhabited island in Polynesia and 3,512 km from Chile in South America?
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Our predecessors who spent less time exploring and fucking are less likely to be our ancestors. It's who we come from and only the mask of civilization lets us forget for a while that it's still who we are.<p>How? Of a few hundred adolescent boys who go paddling around and get swept out to sea maybe one survives to reach a distant land. "How I met your mother." The article treats the oceans as a barrier rather than a vector for spreading seed in coconuts or testicles or whatever. Those boys are dandelion pods.