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In similar news, researches recently found that Madagascar was colonized by Indonesian people, not people coming from mainland Africa. Moreover, there were only about 30 female settlers (no information about male settlers as the study was done on mitochondria DNA, which is only passed from mother to child, but not from father to child).

http://www.economist.com/node/21550759

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/279/1739/2761...

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In similar news, researches recently found that Madagascar was colonized by Indonesian people, not people coming from mainland Africa.

The genetics study is a confirmation of a fact that was known for a long, long time on linguistic grounds. (All of the major languages spoken on Madagascar are Austronesian languages, cognate with the languages from farther east like those of Indonesia and Polynesia.) The travel of some food crops to Madagascar with the early seafaring settlers also suggested this.

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