Over the past decade, the origin of the first Malayo-Polynesian settlers of the island Pacific
has become a contentious issue in molecular anthropology as well as in archaeology and …

Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) was first colonized by modern humans at least 45,000 years
ago, but the extent to which the modern inhabitants trace their ancestry to the first settlers is …

The 360 base‐pair fragment in HVS‐1 of the mitochondrial genome were determined from
ancient human remains excavated at Noen U‐loke and Ban Lum‐Khao, two Bronze and Iron …

Approximately 10 miles separate the Horn of Africa from the Arabian Peninsula at Bab-el-
Mandeb (the Gate of Tears). Both historic and archaeological evidence indicate tight cultural …

Background An early dispersal of biologically and behaviorally modern humans from their
African origins to Australia, by at least 45 thousand years via southern Asia has been …

This is a review of genetic evidence about the ancient demography of the ancestors of our
species and about the genesis of worldwide human diversity. The issue of whether or not a …

Evidence of ancient human dispersals and settlement in South Asia is preserved in the
genomes of its inhabitants, in the form of randomly accumulating mutations, which are …

Background The ancestry of African-descended Americans is known to be drawn from three
distinct populations: African, European, and Native American. While many studies consider …

Studying the genetic history of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia can provide crucial
clues to the peopling of Southeast Asia as a whole. We have analyzed mitochondrial DNA …

Phenotypic similarities between Australian Aboriginal People and some tribes of India were
noted by TH Huxley during the voyage of the Rattlesnake (1846–1850)[1]. Anthropometric …