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Macaulay, Vincent A. and Hill, Catherine and Achilli, Alessandro and Rengo, Chiara and Clarke, Douglas J. and Meehan, William J. and Blackburn, James and Semino, Ornella and Scozzari, Rosaria and Cruciani, Fulvio and Taha, Adi and Kassim Shaari, Norazila and Raja, Joseph Maripa and Ismail, Patimah and Zainuddin, Zafarina and Goodwin, William H. and Bulbeck, David and Bandelt, Hans Jürgen and Oppenheimer, Stephen J. and Torroni, Antonio and Richards, Martin B.
(2005)
Single, rapid coastal settlement of Asia revealed by analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes.
Science, 308 (5724).
pp. 1034-1036.
ISSN 0036-8075; ESSN: 1095-9203
Abstract
A recent dispersal of modern humans out of Africa is now widely accepted, but the routes taken across Eurasia are still disputed. We show that mitochondrial DNA variation in isolated “relict” populations in southeast Asia supports the view that there was only a single dispersal from Africa, most likely via a southern coastal route, through India and onward into southeast Asia and Australasia. There was an early offshoot, leading ultimately to the settlement of the Near East and Europe, but the main dispersal from India to Australia ∼65,000 years ago was rapid, most likely taking only a few thousand years.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Science |
| DOI Number: | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1109792 |
| Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Keywords: | Coastal settlement; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial DNA; Mitochondrial genome |
| Depositing User: | Nabilah Mustapa |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2015 00:48 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2015 00:48 |
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| URI: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40255 |
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