DNA study sheds light on aboriginal Australians' heritage
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 01:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers turn up evidence of interbreeding between native Australians and people who came from India.When modern humans left Africa as far back as 70,000 years ago, they dispersed across the world, reaching Australia 50,000 to 40,000 years ago. From then until the 18th-century arrival of European colonists, aboriginal Australians did not mix their DNA with anyone else in the world — or so many scientists believed.