World Coconut Day: How coconuts became clues to ancient trade and human migration
- Pre-Columbian coconuts in the Americas are genetically closest to varieties from the the Philippines.
- Researchers say Austronesian sailors may have carried them across the Pacific around 2,250 years ago.
Source: deccanherald.com
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