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A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased d...
Silva, M; Oliveira, M; Vieira, D; Brandão, A; Rito, T; Pereira, JB; Fraser, RM; Hudson, B; Gandini, F; Edwards, C; Pala, M; Koch, J; Wilson, JFBackground: 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 ~3.5 ka and the establishment of the caste system, but the extent of immigration at this time ...
Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian-speaking populations
Soares, P; Trejaut, JA; Rito, T; Cavadas, B; Hill, C; Eng, KK; Mormina, M; Brandão, A; Fraser, RM; Wang, T-Y; Loo, J-H; Snell, C; Ko, T-M; Amorim, AThere 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...