Southeast Asia includes four overlapping biodiversity hotspots: Indo-Burma, Philippines, Sundaland and Wallacea (Myers et al. 2000; Sodihi et al. 2004). Southeast Asia covers about 4.5 million km2, which is approximately 3 % of earth’s total land area. There is, however, approximately 20 to 25 % of Earth’s higher plant species in this area (Myers et al. 2000). It is crucial to understand the bi...

It has recently been shown that ancestors of New Guineans and Bougainville Islanders have inherited a proportion of their ancestry from Denisovans, an archaic hominin group from Siberia. However, only a sparse sampling of populations from Southeast Asia and Oceania were analyzed. Here, we quantify Denisova admixture in 33 additional populations from Asia and Oceania. Aboriginal Australians, Nea...

FOREWORD SEVERAL YEARS AGO, Karl Narr asked me to write an article summarizing the recently discovered data of Southeast Asian prehistory for publication in German in Saeculum. In the fall of 1977, I finally did this in the context of an examination of a number of Heine-Ge1dern's hypotheses on Southeast Asian prehistory. I titled the paper "New data on late Southeast Asian prehistory and their ...

Northeast India, the only region which currently forms a land bridge between the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, has been proposed as an important corridor for the initial peopling of East Asia. Given that the Austro-Asiatic linguistic family is considered to be the oldest and spoken by certain tribes in India, Northeast India and entire Southeast Asia, we expect that populations of thi...

Uncertainties surround the timing of modern human emergence and occupation in East and Southeast Asia. Although genetic and archeological data indicate a rapid migration out of Africa and into Southeast Asia by at least 60 ka, mainland Southeast Asia is notable for its absence of fossil evidence for early modern human occupation. Here we report on a modern human cranium from Tam Pa Ling, Laos, ...

The aim of this study was to compare bone mineral densities (BMDs) and body composition between Southeast Asia college students and Chinese college students, in order to provide a certain reference enhancing college students' physical fitness.A total of 1694 Chinese college students (294 men and 1400 women, aged 18-22 years) and 250 Southeast Asia college students (148 men and 102 women, aged 1...

Archaeology, linguistics, and increasingly genetics are clarifying how populations moved from mainland Asia, through Island Southeast Asia, and out into the Pacific during the farming revolution. Yet key features of this process remain poorly understood, particularly how social behaviors intersected with demographic drivers to create the patterns of genomic diversity observed across Island Sout...

Pyrimethamine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum has previously been shown to have emerged once in Southeast Asia, from where it spread to Africa. Pyrimethamine resistance in this parasite is known to be conferred by mutations in the gene encoding dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr). We have analyzed polymorphisms in dhfr as well as microsatellite haplotypes flanking this gene in a total of 285 iso...

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 45 / Issue 02 / June 2014, pp 236 257 DOI: 10.1017/S0022463414000083, Published online: 19 May 2014 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022463414000083 How to cite this article: Tuong Vu (2014). Triumphs or tragedies: A new perspective on the Vietnamese revolution . Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 45, pp 236-257 doi:10.1...

Olawunmi Obisesan, Emmanuel Thompson, Adekunle Obisesan, Olubusayo Akinola, Yvonne Commodore-Mensah 1 Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA 2 Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, USA 3 Southeast Hospital, Cape Girardeau, MO, USA 4 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Abuja, Nigeria 5 Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School ...