Australia discovered by the 'Southern Route'

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 05:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Genetic research indicates that Australian Aborigines initially arrived via south Asia. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have found telltale mutations in modern-day Indian populations that are exclusively shared by Aborigines...

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