The researcher made the extraordinary claim that the corpses, recovered from a mine in Peru's Cusco city, had a genetic composition 30 per cent different from that of human beings.
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Early on, towards the end of the 16th century, Spanish ministers had nagging doubts about keeping the archipelago named after King Felipe II. Although the Capitanía-General de Filipinas was in the vicinity of Maluco, Ternate, Tidore, Ambon – the fabled spice islands – only cinnamon was
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Fr. Pedro Chirino, S.J. ( 1557-1635) arrived with governor-general Gomez Perez Dasmarinas in 1590. He wrote “Relación de las Islas Filipinas (1604),” which is valuable because it captured a historical moment, those early “points of contact” between natives and Spaniards. Fascinated with