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Figure 114 These Batek tribespeople live on the edge of Taman Negara National Park
in peninsular Malaysia. The Batek, descendants of the fi rst modern humans to traverse the
peninsula, are permitted to hunt in the park.
and out of the forest, growing yams and hunting monkeys and squirrels. The
children receive little schooling, and run around cheerfully all day.
The Batek are smaller than the average Malay and their skin is darker.
They and the other Orang Asli are not as African-looking as the far more
isolated Andaman Islanders, because of a long history of intermarriage with
neighboring tribes. But despite this genetic mixing some of them still carry
the deep-rooted mitochondrial DNA sequences that have been passed down
from the time of the Great Migration.
In Borneo the aboriginal diversity is even greater. As of this writing the
sets of complete mitochondrial sequences essential for tracing the Great
 
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