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Anthropology

FRG4

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3. I've heard about these people

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2012, 10:26 AM

Mar 2012

They are one of the few uncontacted peoples on the planet and have been living on the island, apparently isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. They reject all contact with the outside world, too.

North Sentinel Island is a very small area. At most it can probably support only a few hundred people. From a genetic perspective this creates a bottleneck. I wonder how they've avoided "inbreeding" for such a long time.

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North Sentinel Island [View all] ellisonz Mar 2012 OP

Super video find! SamG Mar 2012 #1

I found it pretty incredible too... ellisonz Mar 2012 #2

I've heard about these people FRG4 Mar 2012 #3