[Coral-List] did ciguatera cause Polynesian exploration?

[Douglas Fenner]

I just became aware of this paper.  Ciguatera is of course food poisoning
from eating fish with a natural toxin in it.  Can be lethal, afflicts 10's
of thousands of people annually in the tropics, most survive but it is a
miserable thing from the descriptions.  Anyhow, here is the article:

Dig ciguatera prompt the late Holocene Polynesian voyages of discovery?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02139.x

Cheers,  Doug

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