Founder takes all: density-dependent processes structure biodiversity

JM Waters, CI Fraser, GM Hewitt - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2013 - cell.com
Density-dependent processes play a key role in the spatial structuring of biodiversity.
Specifically, interrelated demographic processes, such as gene surfing, high-density …

Reconstructing Austronesian population history in island Southeast Asia

M Lipson, PR Loh, N Patterson, P Moorjani… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Austronesian languages are spread across half the globe, from Easter Island to
Madagascar. Evidence from linguistics and archaeology indicates that the 'Austronesian …

Reconstructing the human genetic history of mainland Southeast Asia: insights from genome-wide data from Thailand and Laos

W Kutanan, D Liu, J Kampuansai… - Molecular biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Thailand and Laos, located in the center of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), harbor diverse
ethnolinguistic groups encompassing all five language families of MSEA: Tai-Kadai (TK) …

[HTML][HTML] Early Austronesians: into and out of Taiwan

AMS Ko, CY Chen, Q Fu, F Delfin, M Li, HL Chiu… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
A Taiwan origin for the expansion of the Austronesian languages and their speakers is well
supported by linguistic and archaeological evidence. However, human genetic evidence is …

[HTML][HTML] Nasopharyngeal carcinoma among the Bidayuh of Sarawak, Malaysia: History and risk factors

RE Linton, M Daker, ASB Khoo… - Oncology …, 2021 - spandidos-publications.com
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a cancer of the epithelial cells lining the nasopharynx.
The incidence of NPC has a distinct geographical distribution, mainly affecting the Chinese …

The Indonesian archipelago: an ancient genetic highway linking Asia and the Pacific

MK Tumonggor, TM Karafet, B Hallmark… - Journal of human …, 2013 - nature.com
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 …

Reconstructing palaeogeography and inter‐island visibility in the Wallacean Archipelago during the likely period of Sahul colonization, 65–45 000 years ago

S Kealy, J Louys, S O'Connor - Archaeological Prospection, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The palaeogeography of the Wallacea Archipelago is a significant factor in understanding
early modern human colonization of Sahul (Australia and New Guinea), and models of …

Complex patterns of admixture across the Indonesian archipelago

G Hudjashov, TM Karafet, DJ Lawson… - Molecular biology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Indonesia, an island nation as large as continental Europe, hosts a sizeable proportion of
global human diversity, yet remains surprisingly undercharacterized genetically. Here, we …

Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian-speaking populations

PA Soares, JA Trejaut, T Rito, B Cavadas, C Hill… - Human genetics, 2016 - Springer
There are two very different interpretations of the prehistory of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA),
with genetic evidence invoked in support of both. The “out-of-Taiwan” model proposes a …

Evolutionary history and adaptation of a human pygmy population of Flores Island, Indonesia

S Tucci, SH Vohr, RC McCoy, B Vernot, MR Robinson… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Flores Island, Indonesia, was inhabited by the small-bodied hominin species Homo
floresiensis, which has an unknown evolutionary relationship to modern humans. This island …