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A predominantly indigenous paternal heritage for the Austronesian-speaking peoples of insular Southeast Asia and Oceania.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2001
Capelli C, Wilson J F, Richards M, Stumpf M P, Gratrix F, Oppenheimer S, Underhill P, Pascali V L, Ko T M, Goldstein D B
Abstract excerpt
Modern humans reached Southeast Asia and Oceania in one of the first dispersals out of Africa. The resulting temporal overlap of modern and archaic humans-and the apparent morphological continuity between them-has led to claims of gene flow between Homo sapiens and H. erectus. Much more recently, an agricultural technology from mainland Asia spread into the region, possibly in association with Austronesian...
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