Many people focus on these, ignoring the vast majority of genes whose differences are insignificant. As migration increases around the Philippines, and the world, features that might previously have allowed our eyes to classify people will undoubtedly become blurred.
Then the small fraction of DNA differences that differ between populations will become even smaller. In the ancient Philippines, these DNA differences were explained by myth and folklore. Two such stories from the Ibaloi people of the Northern Philippines involve Star Maidens who came from the sky.
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