2026年3月25日
Were the cave-burial people of Guangxi the ancestors of today's Kra–Dai and Hmong–Mien speakers? Ancient DNA says yes — and reveals that cross-border Hmong–Mien kept more southern ancestry than their kin inside China.
Exploring population origins, migrations, interactions and change in East Asia and connected regions through ancient and modern genetic evidence, archaeology and history.
2026年3月23日
Fourteen new genomes from Guangxi cave burials confirm them as ancestors of Kra–Dai and Hmong–Mien speakers, while revealing an unexpected gap: Southeast Asian Hmong–Mien retain far more ancient southern ancestry than their counterparts inside China.
2026年3月11日
Why does the DNA of a Donghulin woman from 11,000 years ago force a rewrite of northern East Asian prehistory? A plain-language guide to "deeply divergent lineages" and the slow transition to millet farming.
2026年3月9日
Fu Qiaomei's team reports the first well-contextualized genomes from 11,000–9,000-year-old Donghulin remains: a previously unknown deep northern East Asian lineage in the lower layer, and population turnover by the upper layer.
2026年3月4日
A popular-science tour of the Austronesian expansion: how the mtDNA "Polynesian motif" and O-lineage Y chromosomes trace ancient voyagers, and why Palau mixed before arrival while Vanuatu mixed afterward.
2026年3月2日
Ancient genomes from 21 Palauan individuals show the island's first settlers already carried a roughly 60:40 East Asian–Papuan mixture, pushing the key admixture event back to before the island was even reached.
2026年2月23日
Integrating 1,507 high-coverage Y sequences, 780 ancient East Asian genomes, and 1,748 Southeast Asian sequences, the study identifies at least five Neolithic southward farmer waves carried mainly by O1 and O2 lineages.
2026年2月17日
Pooling mitogenomes from 17 Jomon sites, a University of Tokyo study reframes east-west Jomon differences as environmentally driven insular divergence after one settlement, rather than evidence of multiple sea crossings.
2026年2月16日
A University of Tokyo team pooling whole mitogenomes from 17 Jomon sites argues east-west differences arose from insular divergence after a single settlement, not from multiple migration routes.
