Malaitan Brown Girl

Can you guess where this delightfully blonde Brown Girl is from? According to National Geographic, the Lau girl seen here is from Malaita, the largest of the Solomon Islands. A new genetic study has found that Melanesians such as the Solomon Islanders are remarkably diverse because of thousands of years of relative isolation. The study also found that the ancestors of modern-day Polynesians and Micronesians were most likely East Asians who island-hopped quickly through Melanesia.