Prehistoric South-east Asians were climate refugees: New study

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Prehistoric South-east Asians were climate refugees: New study
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Whille ancestral migration occurred over many millennia, modern migration due to climate change is likely to take place more instantly and complicatedly. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE – Where will people go if Singapore were to go underwater due to climate change? This question may find an unlikely answer from its geographic history more than 20,000 years ago.

“However, less discussed is how environmental changes can shape the genetic profile of populations,” she added. Additionally, NTU scientists generated genome sequencing data from 59 ethnic groups, including that belonging to populations native to South-east and South Asia from 50,000 years ago. The world was in what is known as the Glacial Maximum period – the most recent ice age to modern times – and glaciers were at their maximum area across the globe. This led to low sea levels and larger amounts of terrestrial space.

The periods occurred 14,000 and 11,000 years ago, when the temperature finally hit a habitable zone for populations in the South-east Asian Peninsula to flourish. Specifically, genetic fragments from the ancestors of the Malaysian indigenous group – commonly referred to as the “Orang Asli” – have been found in South Asian tribal groups that speak Austroasiatic languages, in the eastern part of India.

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