Over huge distances, the islands of the tropical Pacific Sea have been accepted to have been populated by people in two particular movements starting a long time ago. The main route followed a northern course out of what is today the Philippines, and the second followed a southern course from Taiwan and New Guinea. Individuals showed up on the islands between these courses—presently making up the United Provinces of Micronesia—around 1,000 years after the fact. Yet another finding by a Tufts ocean-level scientist and his partners proposes that the islands in Micronesia were perhaps settled a whole lot sooner than