Modern
evidence, including DNA analysis confirms the opinion that modern man,
in the form of Homo sapiens, first came out of Africa as early as
200,000 years ago.The Africans migrated along the coast of Arabia to
West Asia to India; a branch continued across the major islands off Asia
-- Indonesia, Borneo, Papua New Guinea -- and some as far as Australia,
marking the first major sea crossing of humans; a branch continued
along the coast of Asia to West Asia to China; from China a branch went
westward into Central Asia, and then some southward into Southeast Asia,
particularly India, while a branch continued westward into Europe,
these together forming the Indo-European group and then the last major
group went from China across the Bering Straight into North America and
from there some continued into South America.
About a quarter of the Melanesian population in the Solomon Islands
archipelago has an extremely unusual trait – dark skin with blond hair.
The archipelago, located east of Papa New Guinea in Oceania, consists of
a thousand islands inhabited by over half a million Melanesian people.
They have the darkest skin in the world outside of Africa, but
strangely, about one-fourth of the inhabitants sport blond afros.
