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A brief outline of the presentation is as follows.

I will first present a brief introduction to the region

followed by discussion of particular topics that are of interest,

since the region and its history is too broad to cover everything in detail.

So these topics will include single versus multiple waves of dispersal,

referring to the initial colonization of the region,

genetic evidence for contact between Australia and India

after initial colonization of Australia,

and inferences from genetics about the impact of the Austronesian expansion.