Nearly 20 y ago, Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood reviewed the evidence for the
associated spread of farming and large language families by the demographic expansions …

Cultural and socioeconomic differences stratify human societies and shape their genetic
structure beyond the sole effect of geography. Despite mating being limited by sociocultural …

Several localities across the Vanuatu archipelago (Melanesia), so-called 'Polynesian
Outliers', are inhabited by communities that display Polynesian linguistic and cultural …

Abstract Cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) enzyme is involved in the metabolism of about
30% of clinically used drugs, including the antimalarials artemether and lumefantrine …

From the 15th to the 19th century, the Trans-Atlantic Slave-Trade (TAST) influenced the
genetic and cultural diversity of numerous populations. We explore genomic and linguistic …

Vanuatu has largely avoided the political violence seen elsewhere in Melanesia in the
recent past. It has a small but successful tourist economy, based on its selling point as a …

Population genetic theory, and the empirical methods built upon it, often assume that
individuals pair randomly for reproduction. However, natural populations frequently violate …

Au milieu du XV e siècle, au centre du Vanuatu, survient l'éruption du volcan Kuwae. Ce
cata-clysme aux conséquences globales donna lieu, à l'échelle locale, à la dislocation d'une …

Introduced into Pacific archaeology in the 1970s by Roger Green and Andrew Pawley, the
concept of Near and Remote Oceania has mostly been accepted and adopted without …