In the human species, the two uniparental genetic systems (mitochondrial DNA and Y
chromosome) exhibit contrasting diversity patterns. It has been proposed that sex‐specific …

The appearance of people associated with the Lapita culture in the South Pacific around
3,000 years ago marked the beginning of the last major human dispersal to unpopulated …

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

This paper reviews the “standard” view of the Austronesian language family tree in
connection with the archeological “farming/language dispersal” hypothesis of Neolithic …

Indonesia, an island nation linking mainland Asia with the Pacific world, hosts a wide range
of linguistic, ethnic and genetic diversity. Despite the complexity of this cultural environment …

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

The settlement of Madagascar is one of the most unusual, and least understood, episodes in
human prehistory. Madagascar was one of the last landmasses to be reached by people …

The tropical archipelago of Wallacea contains thousands of individual islands interspersed
between mainland Asia and Near Oceania, and marks the location of a series of ancient …

Background Much of the data resolution of the haploid non-recombining Y chromosome
(NRY) haplogroup O in East Asia are still rudimentary and could be an explanatory factor for …

This paper refines the subgroupings of the Timor-Alor-Pantar (tap) family of Papuan
languages, using a systematic Bayesian phylogenetics study. While recent work indicates …