The prevailing view regarding the evolution of medicine is that the emergence of settled agricultural societies around 10,000 years ago (the Neolithic Revolution) gave rise to a host …
Southeast Asia has emerged as an important region for understanding hominin and mammalian migrations and extinctions. High-profile discoveries have shown that Southeast …
Small populations are often exposed to high inbreeding and mutational load that can increase the risk of extinction. The Sumatran rhinoceros was widespread in Southeast Asia …
K Suraprasit, S Jongautchariyakul, C Yamee… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the explanation that the present-day biogeographic boundary between the Indochinese and Sundaic subregions at the Kra Isthmus, the narrowest part of Peninsular …
Sundaland, the inundated shelf separating Java, Sumatra and Borneo from the Malay Peninsula, is of exceptional interest to biogeographers for its species richness and its …
Pleistocene climatic fluctuations (PCF) are frequently highlighted as important evolutionary engines that triggered cycles of biome expansion and contraction. Although there is ample …
The dominant paradigm is that large tracts of Southeast Asia's lowland rainforests were replaced with a “savanna corridor” during the cooler, more seasonal climates of the Last …
The late Pleistocene settlement of highland settings in mainland Southeast Asia by Homo sapiens has challenged our species's ability to occupy mountainous landscapes that acted …
Southeast Asian peatlands, along with their various important ecosystem services, are mainly distributed in the coastal areas of Sumatra and Borneo. These ecosystems are …