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Genetic, linguistic and archaeological perspectives on human diversity in Southeast Asia / editors, Li Jin, Mark Seielstad, Chunjie Xiao.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Recent advances in human biology ; v. 8.
- Recent advances in human biology ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human population genetics--Southeast Asia--Congresses.
- Human population genetics.
- Population genetics--Southeast Asia--Congresses.
- Population genetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (188 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Southeast Asia is regarded as one of the birthplaces of modern humans. Recent genetic evidence shows that it was probably the entry point of modern humans from Africa into East Asia and Oceania. With the help of new markers X mostly from the Y-chromosome and mtDNA X several recent efforts have been made to study the populations of Southeast Asia, which have been somewhat neglected in the past. A new picture of the origin and migrations of modern humans in this region is quickly emerging. In this book, the leading researchers in the studies of Southeast Asian, East Asian, and Oceanian populations
- Contents:
- Preface; Contributors; CONTENTS; Part I: Prehistory of Human Populations Archaeological Linguistic and Paleontological Perspectives; Prehistory Language and Human Biology: Is There a Consensus in East and Southeast Asia; Human Diversity and Language Diversity; Before the Neolithic: Hunter-Gatherer Societies in Central Thailand; Part II: The Peopling of Southeast Asia; The Case for an African Rather Than an Asian Origin of the Human Y-Chromosome YAP Insertion; Genetic History of Ethnic Populations in Southwestern China
- Y-Chromosomal Variation in Uxorilocal and Patrilocal Populations in Thailand ; Genetic Relationships Among Sixteen Ethnic Groups from Malaysia and Southeast Asia; Part III: The Peopling of East Asia; Chinese Human Genome Diversity Project: A Synopsis; Origins and Prehistoric Migrations of Modem Humans in East Asia; Part IV: The Peopling of Oceania; The Genetic Trail from Southeast Asia to the Pacific; The Colonization of Remote Oceania and the Drowning of Sundaland; Index
- Notes:
- Papers presented at an international conference held in June 2000 at the University of Yunnan in Kunming, China.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611956448
- 9781281956446
- 1281956449
- 9789812810847
- 9812810846
- OCLC:
- 879023614
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