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WHEN reading Mr. M. J. Nicoll's “Three Voyages of a Naturalist” a short time ago, I came across the following passage on p. 211 in the chapter on Pitcairn Island:—“The older people, as well as the younger children of Pitcairn, have fair complexions, but the people of from thirty to fifty years of age are quite as dark as the average Polynesian. It appears from this that the Pitcairners resemble their ancestors, the ‘Bounty’ mutineers, every alternate generation.”
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WILLIAMS, C. The Pitcairn Islanders. Nature 81, 518 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081518b0
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