12 research outputs found
India as a Global Power?
India is a stable democratic political system with rising economic fortunes and global ambitions make it a potential power that could play a very important role in world affairs. But India has to tackle many issues to emerge as a global leader.India, democratic, political system, economic, global leader, US, china, HIV/AIDS, middle class population
Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean
The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans, but how, when, and from where they reached the islands remains unclear. We generated genome-wide data for 93 ancient Caribbean islanders dating between 3200-400 cal. BP and find evidence of at least three separate dispersals into the region, including two early dispersals into the Western Caribbean, one of which seems connected to radiation events in North America. This was followed by a later expansion from South America. We also detect genetic differences between the early settlers and the newcomers from South America with almost no evidence of admixture. Our results add to our understanding of the initial peopling of the Caribbean and the movements of Archaic Age peoples in the Americas
Genomic insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean
The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans, but where they came from and how and when they reached the islands remain unclear. We generated genome-wide data for 93 ancient Caribbean islanders dating between 3200 and 400 calibrated years before the present and found evidence of at least three separate dispersals into the region, including two early dispersals into the Western Caribbean, one of which seems connected to radiation events in North America. This was followed by a later expansion from South America. We also detected genetic differences between the early settlers and the newcomers from South America, with almost no evidence of admixture. Our results add to our understanding of the initial peopling of the Caribbean and the movements of Archaic Age peoples in the Americas.The research was funded
by the Max Planck Society and the European Research Council
under the 7th Framework Program (grant agreement no. 319209,
ERC Synergy Project NEXUS1492). H.S. was supported by the
HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) Joint Research
Program âUses of the Pastâ (CitiGen) and the European Unionâs
Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant
agreement no. 649307. W.J.P. and M.A.N.-C. were supported by
the National Science Foundation (BCS-0612727 and BCS1622479). C.L.-F. was supported by a grant from the Ministry of
Science, Innovation and Universities (PGC2018-0955931-B-100,
AEI/FEDER, UE). M.R. was supported by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada (435-2016-0529). M.R.,
Y.C.d.A., U.M.G.H., and S.T.H.G. were supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (standard research
grant SSHRC â 410â2011â1179 and SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship â
756â2016â0180) and several University of Winnipeg internal grants
(Major grant 2017, 2018; Partnership Development grant 2017,
2018; and Discretionary grant 2017, 2018)