According to wikipedia this is the less likely and imo less interesting explanation. They did find coconuts that are genetically distinct from the ones the Spanish brought over from the Philippines, but those ones are more distantly related to the ones in polynesia so they probably didn’t float over. Instead they are more likely evidence of pre-columbian contact of Polynesians with south and central America, along with sweet potatoes originating in South America but being present in polynesia and SEA prior to columbus.
So this would boot Columbus off the podium in people who discovered America.
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Bering strait people / native American ancestors
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Polynesian people
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Vikings, Leif Erickson
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Columbus
Your point is valid, but less funny and will therefore be ignored
(Thank you for fact checking)
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Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
Oh no, maybe they were carried by a bird? (Apologies, I don’t remember the exact line)
Suppose they grasped it by the husk?
It’s not a matter of where it grips it, it’s a matter of weight ratios.
A 5 ounce bird can not carry a one pound coconut.
Straight into my piña colada
Coconuts were introduced to the Caribbean region by humans. They didn’t just float there.
Great, now I don’t know what to believe
“Buy article PDF USD 39.95”
How about “no”?
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1007/s12229-013-9121-z
and carried by swallows ofc
African or European swallows?
If they came from Asia to the Caribbean via the Pacific, how did they traverse North America? If they came via the Atlantic, how did they traverse Europe, the Mediterranean, or Africa?
They were carried by knights who didn’t have horses.
