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 …

To study the evolutionary history of the Australian and New Guinean indigenous peoples,
we analyzed 101 complete mitochondrial genomes including populations from Australia and …

The oldest contemporary human mitochondrial lineages arose in Africa. The earliest
divergent extant maternal offshoot, namely haplogroup L0d, is represented by click …

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 …

The publication in 2001 by Adcock et al.[Adcock GJ, et al.(2001) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98
(2): 537–542] in PNAS reported the recovery of short mtDNA sequences from ancient …

Dogs accompanied people in their migrations across the Pacific Ocean and ultimately
reached New Zealand, which is the southern-most point of their oceanic distribution, around …

DNA from ancient human remains provides perspectives on the origin of our species and the
relationship between molecular and morphological variation. We report analysis of mtDNA …

Humans reached the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific by∼ 3,500 y ago,
contemporaneous with or even earlier than the initial peopling of Polynesia. They crossed …

The strong phylogenetic signal provided by mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (mtDNA)
sequences within species is being exploited to reconstruct the maternal genealogy and …

New Guineans represent one of the oldest locally continuous populations outside Africa,
harboring among the greatest linguistic and genetic diversity on the planet. Archeological …