The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of
ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people,. Here we report genome …

The Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the world's largest and most prominent families,
spoken by nearly 1.4 billion people. Despite the importance of the Sino-Tibetan languages …

Human Y-chromosomes are characterized by nonrecombination and uniparental
inheritance, carrying traces of human history evolution and admixture. Large-scale …

Present-day Tibetans have adapted both genetically and culturally to the high altitude
environment of the Tibetan Plateau, but fundamental questions about their origins remain …

East Asia, geographically extending to the Pamir Plateau in the west, to the Himalayan
Mountains in the southwest, to Lake Baikal in the north and to the South China Sea in the …

The study of southwest China is vital for understanding the dispersal and development of
farming because of the coexistence of millet and rice in this region since the Neolithic …

The southward expansion of East Asian farmers profoundly influenced the social evolution
of Southeast Asia by introducing cereal agriculture. However, the timing and routes of cereal …

The permanent human settlement of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) has been suggested to have
been facilitated by the introduction of barley agriculture∼ 3.6 kilo-years ago (ka). However …

An accurate reconstruction of Sino-Tibetan language evolution would greatly advance our
understanding of East Asian population history. Two recent phylogenetic studies attempted …

Tibeto-Burman (TB) people have endeavored to adapt to the hypoxic, cold, and high-UV
high-altitude environments in the Tibetan Plateau and complex disease exposures in …