It is widely accepted that Holocene climatic and environmental changes had major impacts
on socioeconomic development and the evolution of civilization. The eastern margin of the …

The study of southwest China is vital for understanding the dispersal and development of
farming because of the coexistence of millet and rice in this region since the Neolithic …

The southward expansion of East Asian farmers profoundly influenced the social evolution
of Southeast Asia by introducing cereal agriculture. However, the timing and routes of cereal …

Southern China was the original center of multiple ancestral populations related to modern
Hmong-Mien, Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, and Austronesian people. More recent genetic …

Sino-Tibetan is the most prominent language family in East Asia. Previous genetic studies
mainly focused on the Tibetan and Han Chinese populations. However, due to the sparse …

NorthEast India, with its unique geographic location in the midst of the Himalayas and Bay of
Bengal, has served as a passage for the movement of modern humans across the Indian …

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural
populations in many different parts of the world This fully revised and updated second …

The comprehensive characterization of the fine-scale genetic background of
ethnolinguistically diverse populations can gain new insights into the population admixture …

Insertion-deletion (Indel) serves as one of the important markers in forensic personal
identification and parentage testing, especially for cases with degraded samples. However …

Objectives This study aimed to systematically compare Neolithic mandibles and dentition
with modern Chinese, and thereby discern human evolutionary trends. Materials and …