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Easter Island's complex history

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The history of Easter Island is important because it offers a lesson in long-term survival in an isolated and resource-poor environment. In his review of our book, The Statues That Walked, Paul Bahn makes some potentially misleading assertions (Nature 476, 150–151; 2011).

He implies that we have overlooked other people's work, but those studies are unpublished. We instead acquired our own data, controlling for content and quality.

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  1. Terry L. Hunt University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.,

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  2. Carl P. Lipo California State University, Long Beach, California, USA.,

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Hunt, T., Lipo, C. Easter Island's complex history. Nature 479, 41 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/479041c

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