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My name is Mark Stoneking.
I'm at the Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology
in Leipzig, Germany.
In the presentation,
I will be discussing
the genetic history of Australia,
Oceania, and Southeast Asia.
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A brief outline of the presentation
is as follows.
I will first present a brief
introduction to the region
followed by discussion
of particular topics
that are of interest,
since the region and its history
is too broad to cover everything
in detail.
So these topics will include
single versus multiple waves
of dispersal,
referring to the initial
colonization of the region,
genetic evidence for contact
between Australia and India
after initial colonization
of Australia,
and inferences from genetics about
the impact of the Austronesian
expansion.
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A brief mention of the different
types of genetic markers
that I will be referring to.
These include mitochondrial DNA,
or mtDNA.
This is maternally inherited,
so you get all of
your mitochondrial DNA
from your mother
and none from your father,
and therefore mitochondrial DNA
provides insights
into maternal history.
Another type of genetic marker
I will refer to is
the Y chromosome.
The Y chromosome is inherited
from fathers to sons,
and therefore provides insights
into the paternal history
of human populations.
And finally, I will also
make mention of genome-wide
data,
either sequence data
or single nucleotide polymorphism,
so-called SNP data.
Genome-wide data is particularly
useful for gaining insights
into admixture events
as well as more detailed insights
into the demographic history
of human populations.
