Beth Shapiro

Yeah.

And one thing that people have tested, actually, this again was work that my husband did, was whether the people who live there today, the Rampasasa people, are related to them and they're not.

It seems like because they're small as well.

And the question is, is there something weird about them?

This is actually really cool.

It was a really cool result.

There are it's hard to know exactly what bits of changes in your DNA code for making you big or small.

But clearly, it's not just one thing because there's not just people my size and people normal size.

I'm only five feet tall, right?

We have a big spectrum of help.

So there's lots of different genes that are involved with this.

But we kind of have an idea of where those genes are in a genome and what they might be.

And with these people who are all small, the idea, the hypothesis was that there was some new thing in their DNA that led to them being small.

But it wasn't.

They just are at the extreme of all the things we already know.

It's just a small population on an island.

Different alleles go to fixation.

And yes, I mean, weird things happen on islands.

Elephants dwarfed.

Yeah, but dodos, dodos got bigger.