The human history of Oceania is unique in the way that it encompasses both the first out-of-
Africa expansion of modern humans to New Guinea and Australia as well as the last …

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y-chromosome and, more recently, genome studies from living
people have produced powerful evidence for the dispersal of modern human populations …

Aboriginal Australians are one of the more poorly studied populations from the standpoint of
human evolution and genetic diversity. Thus, to investigate their genetic diversity, the …

Present–day Pacific islanders are thought to be the descendants of Neolithic agriculturalists
who expanded from island South–east Asia several thousand years ago. They speak …

Abstract The Comoros Islands are situated off the coast of East Africa, at the northern
entrance of the channel of Mozambique. Contemporary Comoros society displays linguistic …

Recent genetic research suggests an expansion along the tropical coastline of the Indian
Ocean, between 75,000 and 60,000 years ago, of the population which included the …

A major unanswered question regarding the dispersal of modern humans around the world
concerns the geographical site of the first human steps outside of Africa. The" southern …

The dispersal of modern humans across the globe began∼ 65,000 y ago when people first
left Africa and culminated with the settlement of East Polynesia, which occurred in the last …

An assessment of 28 pertinent binary genetic markers on the non‐recombining portion of the
Y chromosome (NRY) in New Zealand Maori and other relevant populations has revealed a …

Archaeology, linguistics, and existing genetic studies indicate that Oceania was settled by
two major waves of migration. The first migration took place approximately 40 thousand …