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CONSIDERING their geographic location, the islands of the Pacific Ocean should have been inhabited first by Asiatic and/or American peoples. Heyerdahl1 showed that this is a possibility when he sailed from the Peruvian coasts to the Polynesian Islands by a very primitive means, Because of the proximity of the islands to America, determination of the blood groups of the inhabitants should clarify the situation. Until Graydon and Simmons' study2 of blood samples of pure natives obtained by Heyerdahl, only the classical groups were known3–7.
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ETCHEVERRY, R. Blood Groups in Natives of Easter Island. Nature 216, 690–691 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216690a0
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