The Minority Report

I love evolution and the early development and migration of humans. I thought this article was pretty cool, using bacteria to track their movements.

Not Exactly Rocket Science : Bacteria and languages reveal how people spread through the Pacific

The Austronesian people originated in Taiwan some 5,000 years ago. After a few centuries of settlement, they started a massive pulse of migration, spreading southwards and eastwards. They moved to the Philippines, dispersed across South-East Asia, and spread as far west as Madagascar and as far east as the Micronesian islands. They reached Fiji and other islands in Western Polynesia about 3,000 years ago and there, they paused again. About 1,500 years ago, they started a second big migration pulse that took them east across the Pacific all the way to Easter Island.