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 …

Mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (mtDNA), Y chromosome and limited genomic studies
indicate deep ancestry for both Australia and New Guinea peoples, with evidence for limited …

Published and new samples of Aboriginal Australians and Melanesians were analyzed for
mtDNA (n= 172) and Y variation (n= 522), and the resulting profiles were compared with 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 …

Modern human origins have been securely located in Africa. Human migrations out of Africa
began approximately 65,000 years ago and ended with the settlement of Aotearoa/New …

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

Although fossil remains show that anatomically modern humans dispersed out of Africa into
the Near East∼ 100 to 130 ka, genetic evidence from extant populations has suggested that …

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 …

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 …