Multiple lines of evidence show that modern humans interbred with archaic Denisovans.
Here, we report an account of shared demographic history between Australasians and …

Although situated∼ 400 km from the east coast of Africa, Madagascar exhibits cultural,
linguistic, and genetic traits from both Southeast Asia and Eastern Africa. The settlement …

Indonesia, an island nation as large as continental Europe, hosts a sizeable proportion of
global human diversity, yet remains surprisingly undercharacterized genetically. Here, we …

Geographic patterns in human genetic diversity carry footprints of population history and
provide insights for genetic medicine and its application across human populations …

The Bajo, the world's largest remaining sea nomad group, are scattered across hundreds of
recently settled communities in Island Southeast Asia, along the coasts of Indonesia …

The human colonization of eastern Africa's near-and offshore islands was accompanied by
the translocation of several domestic, wild and commensal fauna, many of which had long …

African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive
overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed …

Abstract Background The Afrikaner population of South Africa is the descendants of
European colonists who started to colonize the Cape of Good Hope in the 1600s. In the …

At the dawn of the second millennium, the expansion of the Indian Ocean trading network
aligned with the emergence of an outward-oriented community along the East African coast …

A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years
investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island. Madagascar is a place of change. A …