Austronesian Expansion: Social, Linguistic, Genetic Networks

Anthropologist and author Steve Lansing discusses an exciting, truly interdisciplinary project involving researchers from anthropology, mathematics, and evolutionary biology, who are using multiple sources of data to better understand the peopling of Austronesia. The episode opens with a University of Arizona video news segment on the first documented case of pest resistance to biotech cotton.

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[sirHamilton100]

i am an austronesian

[SCX2000SR]

I am an Austronesian, are you?

[arhdtb]

@aldomovielovers most of them (Javanese, Sundanese, Malay, Batak, Dayak etc)

but many ethnic in Papua and Moluccas are Papuan (such as Ternatean, Asmat etc)

[sayyid14]

Australoid is true race in Southeast asia to Australia-papua-Andaman-nicoba­r-melanesia.and latter austronesian came from south china yunnan

[aldomovielovers]

so indonesian is austronesian right?

[rapemap]

Nice docu! Only, the island labelled as Nias is actually Siberut :-)

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!