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A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased d...
Silva, Marina; Oliveira, Marisa; Vieira, Daniel; Brandão, Andreia; Rito, Teresa S; Pereira, Joana B.; Fraser, Ross M.; Hudson, Bob; Gandini, FrancescaBackground: India is a patchwork of tribal and non-tribal populations that speak many different languages from various language families. Indo-European, spoken across northern and central India, and also in Pakistan and Bangladesh, has been frequently connected to the so-called "Indo-Aryan invasions" from Central Asia similar to 3.5 ka and the establishment of the caste system, but the extent of immigration at ...
Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian‑speaking populations
Soares, Pedro; Trejaut, Jean A.; Rito, Teresa S; Cavadas, Bruno; Hill, Catherine; Eng, Ken Khong; Mormina, Maru; Brandão, Andreia; Fraser, Ross M.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 major Late Holocene expansion of Neolithic Austronesian speakers from Taiwan. An alternative, proposing that Late Glacial/postglacial sea-level rises triggered largely autochthonous dispersals, accounts for some otherwise enigmatic...