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Human melting pots in southeast Asia

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New genetic methods to analyse mixed human populations have extended existing, multidisciplinary evidence for the historical migrations and mixings of Austronesian peoples.

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  1. Jared Diamond is in the Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1524, USA.,

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Diamond, J. Human melting pots in southeast Asia. Nature 512, 262–263 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/512262a

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