Palau – 東亞遺傳譜繫學會

2026年4月29日

[Explainer] The Pacific Was Not a Straight Line: How Palau Genomes Rewrite the “Out of Taiwan” Story

Humans reached the Pacific nearly simultaneously ~3,000 years ago — but Palau's first settlers were already admixed, unlike Vanuatu's "East Asian first, Papuan later" sequence. The Out-of-Taiwan map needs redrawing.

2026年4月15日

[Explainer] Three Ancient-DNA Breakthroughs in One Month: The East Asian Human Story the Public Should Know

Three ancient-DNA headlines in one month — Donghulin's unknown lineage, Palau's pre-admixture, the biggest Y-chromosome tree. A plain-language thread tying them together, and the methods that make bones speak.

2026年3月2日

Ancient Palau Genomes Rewrite Remote Oceania Settlement: East Asian–Papuan Admixture Predated Arrival

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.