• DOI:10.1007/s00439-015-1620-z
Corpus ID: 4986289

Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian-speaking populations

@article{Soares2015ResolvingTA,
  title={Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian-speaking populations},
  author={P. Soares and J. Trejaut and Teresa Rito and B. Cavadas and C. Hill and Ken Khong Eng and Maru Mormina and A. Brand{\~a}o and R. Fraser and Tse-Yi Wang and J. Loo and C. Snell and T. Ko and A. Amorim and M. Pala and V. Macaulay and D. Bulbeck and J. Wilson and L. Gusm{\~a}o and L. Pereira and S. Oppenheimer and M. Lin and M. Richards},
  journal={Human Genetics},
  year={2015},
  volume={135},
  pages={309 - 326}
}

P. Soares, J. Trejaut, +20 authors M. Richards

Published 2015

Biology, Medicine

Human Genetics

There 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 genetic patterns, but fails to explain the Austronesian language dispersal… CONTINUE READING

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