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Ascertaining the role of Taiwan as a source for the Austronesian expansion.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Apr 2013
Mirabal Sheyla, Cadenas Alicia M, Garcia-Bertrand Ralph, Herrera Rene J
Abstract excerpt
Taiwanese aborigines have been deemed the ancestors of Austronesian speakers which are currently distributed throughout two-thirds of the globe. As such, understanding their genetic distribution and diversity as well as their relationship to mainland Asian groups is important to consolidating the numerous models that have been proposed to explain the dispersal of Austronesian speaking peoples into Oceania. To...
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