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.
2025年12月30日
A year-end People's Daily feature surveys Qiaomei Fu's work on over a thousand ancient genomes, framing East Asian prehistory as an interwoven web of migration waves readable through molecular archaeology.
2025年12月24日
Who were the hanging-coffin people, and do any descendants survive? Ancient DNA shows the modern Bo of Yunnan share up to 79% ancestry with cliff-buried individuals in China and Thailand.
2025年12月19日
Paleoanthropologist John Hawks rounds up 2025's top ancient-DNA findings, including the ~200,000-year-old high-coverage Denisova 25 genome. This piece uses that list to review key breakthroughs.
2025年12月5日
Thirty-five ancient genomes from the southeastern Mongolian Plateau show local early-Holocene ancestry enduring for millennia, then inflow from Hongshan-related groups around 5,700 years ago—distinguishing cultural diffusion from real migration.
2025年12月3日
After the Shimao results, coverage has focused on how ancient DNA is cross-read with archaeology, isotopes and radiocarbon to trace local late-Yangshao origins and a kinship-based patrilineal power structure.
2025年11月28日
Of about 80 skulls from Shimao's East Gate, ancient DNA shows nine in ten were male—upending prior expectations. Here is how scientists read a 4,300-year-old patrilineal society from bone genomes.
2025年11月14日
Dogs were the first domesticated animal and often moved alongside people, so ancient dog genomes serve as a proxy for human migration. Here is why sequencing them helps map how people moved.
2025年11月7日
Why can fragments of Denisovan DNA act as a tracer of human movement? This plain-language guide explains how archaic admixture shaped the genetic makeup of people in East Asia today.
