The Pacific region provides unique opportunities to study human evolution including through
analyses of ancient DNA. While some of the earliest studies involving ancient DNA from …

Seagrass ecosystems provide critical contributions (goods and perceived benefits or
detriments) for the livelihoods and wellbeing of Pacific Islander peoples. Through in-depth …

Reliable estimates of the rate at which DNA accumulates mutations (the substitution rate)
are crucial for our understanding of the evolution and past demography of virtually any …

Integration of archaeology, modern genetics, and ancient DNA holds promise for the
reconstruction of the human past. We examine the advances in research on the indigenous …

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 …

Archaeology, linguistics, and existing genetic studies indicate that Oceania was settled by
two major waves of migration. The first migration took place approximately 40 thousand …

Forensic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis conducted using next-generation sequencing
(NGS), also known as massively parallel sequencing (MPS), as compared to Sanger-type …

The dispersal of modern humans across the globe began∼ 65,000 y ago when people first
left Africa and culminated with the settlement of East Polynesia, which occurred in the last …

The debate concerning the origin of the Polynesian speaking peoples has been recently
reinvigorated by genetic evidence for secondary migrations to western Polynesia from the …

Background Distinct, partly competing,“waves” have been proposed to explain human
migration in (to) today's Island Southeast Asia and Australia based on genetic (and other) …