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Did this feat help prove that the hypothesis of Thor Heyerdahl was correct? The solution
of the ethnogenesis problem should be approached from various aspects: archeology,
anthropology, linguistics, genetics, climatology and geology. The increase and decrease of
sea levels during the Holocene period which was researched by geologists and presented
in the detailed paleogeography can help the solution of ethnogenesis problems.
In the Y chromosome of males, there is a genetic biosign called M168. It is a biosign of
the first mutation result which appeared 50,000 years ago in a group of modern African
males who left Africa and passed it on to all males around the world. The Eijkman Institute
in Jakarta is a genetic molecular institute which is involved in the mapping of all of races in
Indonesia as part of the project of mapping all of the races in the world. Using complicated
genetic techniques, mapping can be produced for times up to hundreds of thousands of
years in the past, so that the mapping of human migration and history can be identified.

The path from Barito to Madagascar (500 BC).
Source: mitomap.org (2013)

Map of main early human migrations based on Mitochondrial DNA with approximate dates.

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