The origin of the Malagasy population has been a subject of speculation since the 16th
century. Contributions of African, Asian, Indian, Melanesian, Arabic and Persian populations …

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 island of Madagascar is among the last of the major landmasses to have been
populated by humans, yet this colonization remains one of the least well understood …

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

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 …

Madagascar is located at the crossroads of the Asian and African worlds and is therefore of
particular interest for studies on human population migration. Within the large human …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …