02-28-2024, 03:42 PM
(02-28-2024, 09:47 AM)Tomenable Wrote:(02-27-2024, 02:41 PM)Kale Wrote: They don't have any 'Papuan' components, because Papuans, Melanesians, Australians, etc. are bottlenecked, and there was no major backflow to the mainland. Oceanians are basically a bottlenecked subset of the Hoabinhian/Andaman phylogenic region (plus the Denisovan of course).
What do you think about this paper, has this been confirmed by other studies?:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1211927110
I'm not convinced. If there was a widespread mixture 4,230 years ago, I'd expect there to be a number of South-Asian haplogroups among Australian aborigines. To my knowledge there are none?