Australian aborigines may be first to populate world outside Africa

See http://www.science20.com/news_articles/were_australian_aborigines_first_explo... for genomics study claiming Australian aborigines descended from a different migration out of Africa than occurred later.

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• australia
• anthropology
• africa
• evolution
• migration

[scientificblogging]

Thanks. Imagine getting 'aboriginals' right and 'populate' wrong.

[LasVegasSummer2009]

It's "populate" not "popular".

[dwhitsonish]

Populate! Gezz

[MrInception12]

aborginals arent black but they have the smae skin colour as shit

[HenryDavidT]

That the second/later wave went deeper, inland, once they left the Middle East.

In Central Asia, they split, one trekking west, to become modern Europeans and one east, to become modern East Asians; but that the oldest genes before the European-Asian split happened, around 20-40K years ago, could still be traced to modern Central Asia. Both w/ the mutated genes for straight hair & fair skin.

Again, this was about 10 years ago, by National Geographic and geneticist Spencer Wells....

[HenryDavidT]

This more up to date evidence cements geneticist/anthropologist Spencer Wells' 2001 Y-chromosome analysis and theory: THE JOURNEY OF MAN: A Genetic Oddyssey.

That there were at least two waves of modern human migration:

That the *first* hugged the coast; there are still ancient Y-chromosome traces in very isolated, small populations from India, to Malaysia & Indonesia, all the way to Australia; that they retained the dominant genes for curly hair & dark pigmentation, for their environments.

[tabaripalmer]

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