Aboriginal hair shows 50,000 years connection to Australia

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 14:31 in Biology & Nature

DNA in hair samples collected from Aboriginal people across Australia in the early to mid-1900s has revealed that populations have been continuously present in the same regions for up to 50,000 years -- soon after the peopling of Australia.

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