ECONOMIC REFORM AND SOUTH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT: REVIEW OF LESSONS FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

AbstractThe phylogenetic analysis of Y chromosomal haplogroup O2a-M95 was crucial to determine the nested structure of South Asian branches within the larger tree, predominantly present in East and Southeast Asia. However, it had previously been unclear how many founders brought the haplogroup O2a-M95 to South Asia. On the basis of the updated Y chromosomal tree for haplogroup O2a-M95, we analysed 1,437 male samples from South Asia for various downstream markers, carefully selected from the extant phylogenetic tree. With this increased resolution, we were able to identify at least three founders downstream to haplogroup O2a-M95 who are likely to have been associated with the dispersal of Austroasiatic languages to South Asia. The fourth founder was exclusively present amongst Tibeto-Burman speakers of Manipur and Bangladesh. In sum, our new results suggest the arrival of Austroasiatic languages in South Asia during last five thousand years.

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Book Reviews

Research in Language ◽

10.2478/v10015-007-0013-3 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 251-292

Author(s):

Tor A. Åfarli ◽

Jarosław Jakielaszek ◽

Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka ◽

Wiktor Pskit ◽

Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska ◽

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Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

English Language ◽

Oxford University ◽

East And Southeast Asia ◽

Adverbial Modification ◽

Secondary Predication ◽

Oxford University Press

Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Eva F. Schultze-Berndt (eds), Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxv + 448 pages Edward L. Keenan, Edward P. Stabler, Bare Grammar: Lectures on Linguistic Invariants. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2003. 192 pp. Siobhan Chapman, Thinking about Language. Theories of English. Houndsmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. X + 174 pages. pb (Series: Perspectives on the English Language) Judith Rodby, W. Ross Winterowd, The Uses of Grammar, Oxford: Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv + 274 pp. Laura J. Downing, Alan T. Hall and Renate Raffelsiefen (eds), Paradigms in Phonological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 349 pages. Max W. Wheeler, The Phonology of Catalan. (The Phonology of the World’s Languages). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. XI + 387 pp. Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina, Anastasia Karlson, and Vivan Franzén, The Phonology of Mongolian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xix + 314. Cliff Goddard, The Languages of East and Southeast Asia. An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. pp. xvi + 315.

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Climate Change Mitigation Policy in East and Southeast Asia and Business Opportunities of Japanese Stakeholder in the Region

JAPAN TAPPI JOURNAL ◽

10.2524/jtappij.67.1396 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 67 (12) ◽

pp. 1396-1401

Author(s):

Yasuhiro Kasuya

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Mitigation Policy ◽

Business Opportunities ◽

Climate Change Mitigation Policy ◽

East And Southeast Asia ◽

Change Mitigation

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Rhinocerotidae from the early Miocene of the Negev (Israel) and implications for the dispersal of early Neogene rhinoceroses

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/jpa.2021.64 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Luca Pandolfi ◽

Ran Calvo ◽

Ari Grossman ◽

Rivka Rabinovich

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

South Asian ◽

North Africa ◽

Range Expansion ◽

New Records ◽

Ct Scanning ◽

Early Miocene ◽

Early Neogene ◽

Postcranial Remains

Abstract A revision of the rhinocerotid material from the Negev (Israel), dating back to the early Miocene (MN3 in the European Mammal Biochronology), highlights the presence of Brachypotherium and a taxon close to Gaindatherium in the Levantine corridor. A juvenile mandible, investigated using CT scanning, displays morphologically distinct characters consistent with Brachypotherium cf. B. snowi rather than with other Eurasian representatives of this genus. Some postcranial remains from the Negev, such as a humerus, display features that distinguish it among Miocene taxa. We attribute these postcrania to cf. Gaindatherium sp., a taxon never recorded outside the Siwaliks until now. This taxon dispersed into the Levantine region during the late early Miocene, following a pattern similar to other South Asian taxa. Brachypotherium cf. B. snowi probably occurred in the Levantine region and then in North Africa during the early Miocene because its remains are known from slightly younger localities such as Moghara (Egypt) and Jebel Zelten (Libya). The occurrence cf. Gaindatherium sp. represents a previously unrecorded range expansion out of Southeast Asia. These new records demonstrate the paleogeographic importance of the Levantine region showcasing the complex role of the Levantine corridor in intercontinental dispersals between Asia and Europe as well as Eurasia and Africa.

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