Posted on 09/22/2011 7:36:33 PM PDT by decimon
A lock of hair has helped scientists to piece together the genome of Australian Aborigines and rewrite the history of human dispersal around the world.
DNA from the hair demonstrates that indigenous Aboriginal Australians were the first to separate from other modern humans, around 70,000 years ago.
This challenges current theories of a single phase of dispersal from Africa.
An international team of researchers published their findings in the journal Science.
While the Aboriginal populations were trailblazing across Asia and into Australia, the remaining humans stayed around North Africa and the Middle East until 24,000 years ago.
Only then did they spread out and colonise Europe and Asia, but the indigenous Aborigines had been established in Australia for 25,000 years.
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Comparison with Eurasian populations show that the Australian Aborigines have a similar percentage of Neanderthal genes within their DNA as their Eurasian counterparts, suggesting that any interbreeding occurred before the Aborigines embarked on their colonising journey.
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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
You missed a whole bunch of threads on that.
These people don’t want to permit any ship contact between Europe and the East Coast of the US. Or South America. Oh well! They undoubtly are land lubbers.
Sometimes it doesn't pay to be an early adopter.
``DNA from the hair demonstrates that indigenous Aboriginal Australians were the first to separate from other modern humans, around 70,000 years ago-``
``Only then did they spread out and colonise Europe and Asia, but the indigenous Aborigines had been established in Australia for 25,000 years.``
``The boomerang was invented between 25000 to 50000 years ago-``
www.culturequest.us/aboriginal_tools/boomerang.htm
70,000 minus 25,000 equals 45,000 years= coincidence?
``Throwing sticks like boomerangs have been around for more than 15 000 years and were invented independently by a number of different cultures. People in Egypt, Africa, Europe and North America used throwing sticks but the returning boomerang is unique to the Australian Aborigines.``
http://www.questacon.edu.au/indepth/clever/aboriginal_technology.html
I’m assuming the Maori are part of that group, as well? I guess they just continued the journey on over to what is now New Zealand.
If the DNA fits.
in order to open a hair pin lock you have to make a hair pin turn.
;’)
The dogs came later.
The Maori are Polynesians. Last I heard the Polynesians originated in Taiwan before spreading across a large part of the Pacific and eventually reaching New Zealand. I don’t think they are any more closely related to the Australian aborigines than any other Asian people are.
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