[LETTERS]

This is similar to the Germanic languages found in Europe that shows (if we didn’t know already) that the Germanic languages arose there and were later carried to places like England, rather than vice-versa.

Modern-day Pacific Islanders feel no sense of connection toward Taiwan as an ancestral place of origin, but that is almost certainly where they came from.

PETER RUDIAK-GOULD

PhD student in anthropology, Oxford University