Single, Rapid Coastal Settlement of Asia Revealed by Analysis of Complete Mitochondrial Genomes
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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Supported by United Productions and the Discovery Channel, the British Academy, the Royal Society, the University of Huddersfield, the Wellcome Trust, the Italian Ministry of the University (Progetti Ricerca Interesse Nazionale 2003), Progetto CNR-MIUR Genomica Funzionale-Legge 449/97, Grandi Progetti di Ateneo (Università La Sapienza), the Muzium Negara Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), and the Universiti Putra Malaysia. We thank the Malaysian participants for providing cheek-swab samples and J. Clegg and A. S. Sofro for Indonesian samples.
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