How early Aboriginal Australians journeyed from Africa

By Pallavi Singhal
Updated September 27 2016 - 11:23am, first published September 22 2016 - 3:00am
Biological anthropologist Michael Westaway from Griffith University obtains a saliva sample from Thanakwith elder Thomas Wales in Cape York. Photo: Tom Cebula, Wall to Wall Media
Biological anthropologist Michael Westaway from Griffith University obtains a saliva sample from Thanakwith elder Thomas Wales in Cape York. Photo: Tom Cebula, Wall to Wall Media
Aubrey Lynch, an elder from the Wongatha Aboriginal language group, who participated in the study. Photo: Preben Hjort, Mayday Film
Aubrey Lynch, an elder from the Wongatha Aboriginal language group, who participated in the study. Photo: Preben Hjort, Mayday Film

Aboriginal Australians have the closest genetic links to highland Papua New Guinea populations, the largest DNA study of its kind has found, providing new insights into the movement of early humans following their dispersal from Africa.

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