Recent Advances in Human Biology - Vol. 8
GENETIC, LINGUISTIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN DIVERSITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Yunnan University, China 26 - 27 June 2000
edited by Li Jin (University of Texas, Houston, USA), Mark Seielstad (Harvard University, Boston, USA) & Chunjie Xiao (Yunnan University, China)
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 — mostly from the Y-chromosome and mtDNA — 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 present the most up-to-date results of their research.
Contents:
- Prehistory of Human Populations: Archaelogical, Linguistic and
Paleontological Perspectives:
- Prehistory, Language and Human Biology: Is There a Consensus in East and Southeast Asia? (C F W Higham)
- Human Diversity and Language Diversity (W S-Y Wang)
- Before the Neolithic: Hunter–Gatherer Societies in Central Thailand (R Thosarat)
- The Peopling of Southeast Asia:
- The Case for an African Rather Than an Asian Origin of the Human Y-Chromosome YAP Insertion (P A Underhill & C C Roseman)
- Genetic History of Ethnic Populations in Southwestern China (B Su et al.)
- Y-Chromosomal Variation in Uxorilocal and Patrilocal Populations in Thailand (M Srikummool et al.)
- Genetic Relationships Among 16 Ethnic Groups from Malaysia and Southeast Asia (S G Tan)
- The Peopling of East Asia:
- Chinese Human Genome Diversity Project: A Synopsis (J Chu)
- Origins and Prehistoric Migrations of Modern Humans in East Asia (B Su & L Jin)
- The Peopling of Oceania:
- The Genetic Trail from Southeast Asia to the Pacific (R Deka et al.)
- The Colonization of Remote Oceania and the Drowning of Sundaland (J K Lum)
Readership: Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in
genetics, anthropology and linguistics.
"The volume provides a good snapshot of the state of knowledge of human diversity of Southeast Asian populations. Both geneticists unfamiliar with studies of Southeast Asian populations and archaeologists and linguists seeking a general genetic overview of the region will find very useful information in this book. The book is also a valuable example of a multidisciplinary approach (wedding genetics, archaeology, and linguistics) employed to better evaluate, and possibly distinguish between, the different hypotheses concerning human origins and movements. The authors are to be congratulated for bridging the dysfunctional gap between people from related but methodologically distinct disciplines."
| The American Journal of Human Genetics |
"... this volume, to some degree at least, helps to resolve the problem of interpreting genetic and other kinds of information ..."
| 188pp |
Pub. date: Dec 2001 |
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