{"title":"Unveiling East Asian ancestry through Middle Neolithic genomes.","authors":"Min-Sheng Peng, Xueping Ji, Ya-Ping Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.012","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The spread of millet and rice agriculture has significantly impacted human societies in Asia and the Pacific. Recent ancient genomic studies by Xiong et al. and Wang et al. uncover three East Asian farmer ancestries and their migrations during the Middle Neolithic. These underscore interactions between diverse ancestries and update the farming/language dispersal hypothesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":23274,"journal":{"name":"Trends in ecology & evolution","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Trends in ecology & evolution","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.09.012","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The spread of millet and rice agriculture has significantly impacted human societies in Asia and the Pacific. Recent ancient genomic studies by Xiong et al. and Wang et al. uncover three East Asian farmer ancestries and their migrations during the Middle Neolithic. These underscore interactions between diverse ancestries and update the farming/language dispersal hypothesis.
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