The Austronesian expansion, one of the last major human migrations, influenced regions as
distant as tropical Asia, Remote Oceania and Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa. The …

Malagasy genetic diversity results from an exceptional protoglobalization process that took
place over a thousand years ago across the Indian Ocean. Previous efforts to locate the …

Linguistic and cultural evidence suggest that Madagascar was the final point of two major
dispersals of Austronesian-and Bantu-speaking populations. Today, the Mikea are …

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 …

The Austronesian dispersal across the Indonesian Ocean to Madagascar and the Comoros
has been well documented, but in an unexplained anomaly, few to no traces have been …

Background Linguistic, cultural and genetic characteristics of the Malagasy suggest that both
Africans and Island Southeast Asians were involved in the colonization of Madagascar …

The debate on the peopling of Madagascar has long been dominated by historical
linguistics and the observed similarities between Malagasy and Austronesian languages. It …

Linguistic and archaeological evidence about the origins of the Malagasy, the indigenous
peoples of Madagascar, points to mixed African and Indonesian ancestry. By contrast …

The uniqueness of Malagasy people comes from a balanced admixture between deep-
rooted branches of the human evolutionary history, the Southeast Asian and the African …

The Malagasy have been shown to be a genetically admixed population combining parental
lineages with African and South East Asian ancestry. In the present paper, we fit the …