Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel – part of India’s Andaman Islands – in an attempt to meet the Sentinelese people, who are believed to number only about 150.
“The American citizen was presented before the local court after his arrest and is now on a three-day remand for further interrogation,” the Andaman and Nicobar Islands police chief, HGS Dhaliwal, told AFP.
It’s colonialist nonsense to assert than any human subpopulation is more of a “throwback” or “time capsule” than any other. Evolution never stops, anywhere. An isolated population can differ from the main population, but that doesn’t make it more evolutionarily advanced or primitive. Those are loaded words and, from the perspective of evolutionary theory, meaningless.