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Australian Aboriginal DNA Suggests 70,000-Year History

brindafella writes with a link to an abstract at the journal Science that says "Scientists have obtained a DNA genomic sequence from a 100-year-old, voluntarily donated hair sample from a full-blood Australian Aboriginal man. [Analysis of the hair] shows 'Aboriginal Australians are descendants of an early human dispersal into eastern Asia, possibly 62,000 to 75,000 years ago. This dispersal is separate from the one that gave rise to modern Asians 25,000 to 38,000 years ago. ... [Their] findings support the hypothesis that present-day Aboriginal Australians descend from the earliest humans to occupy Australia, likely representing one of the oldest continuous populations outside Africa.' A news story gives more detail."

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  1. Re:Lineage by Psychotria · · Score: 1, Troll

    You might treat them as second class citizens. Your friends might. Your parents might. Our ancestors certainly did.

    I do not. Stop speaking for all of "us"; you just might find yourself in the minority.

  2. The Main Problem As I See It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Like Indians and Niggers, there are just more human effluent that think their inbreeding and ugliness entitles them to free money.

    In today's economic belt tightening, it's time to cut freeloaders like these off. The free ride at state universities for these D students has to stop, and likewise it's time to jettison the "token ethnic".

    These simpletons are suitable for some things like heavy labor and auto mechanics for the men, and domestic applications the women, but would you really want an "ethnic" doctor pushing his finger up your daughter's vagina?

    This type of "study" only tells us that in 70,000 years, these aborigines where incapable of evolving into civilized and intelligent humans, they still wear worn and filthy animal skins and dance around fires chanting to imaginary "gods"...

    Seriously, folks.