Single, rapid coastal settlement of Asia revealed by analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes

Macaulay, Vincent; Hill, Catherine; Achilli, Alessandro; Rengo, Chiara; Clarke, Douglas; Meehan, William; Blackburn, James; Semino, Ornella; Scozzari, Rosaria; Cruciani, Fulvio; Taha, Adi; Shaari, Norazila Kassim; Raja, Joseph Maripa; Ismail, Patimah; Zainuddin, Zafarina; Goodwin, William; Bulbeck, F David; Bandelt, Hans-Jurgen; Oppenheimer, Stephen James; Torroni, Antonio; Richards, Martin

Single, rapid coastal settlement of Asia revealed by analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes

Date

2005

Authors

Macaulay, Vincent

Hill, Catherine

Achilli, Alessandro

Rengo, Chiara

Clarke, Douglas

Meehan, William

Blackburn, James

Semino, Ornella

Scozzari, Rosaria

Cruciani, Fulvio

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Abstract

A recent dispersal of modern humans put 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