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Tuesday, January 9 10:00 AM SGT
Adam was an Aussie not an African, Australian researchers say
SYDNEY, Jan 9 (AFP) -
Adam and Eve were Australians, not Africans as most experts on
human evolution now believe, according to recently completed
Australian research.
The research, soon to be published by an American scientific
journal, presents a new genetic tree showing anatomically modern
humanity emerged from a common ancestor who lived in Australia
60,000 years ago.
A team led by anthropologist Alan Thorne of Canberra's Australian
National University, also shows Australia was once home to a
group of Aboriginal people whose genetic line has vanished from
the planet.
The discoveries are based on new analysis of the oldest DNA
recovered from human remains; genetic material from a 60,000-
year-old skeleton found near Lake Mungo in the eastern Australian
state of New South Wales in 1974.
Mungo Man, as he has been dubbed, is creating a stir in the
scientific community by casting serious doubt on the Out of Africa
model of human evolution which has been backed by most
international experts.
It holds that all living people are descended from a group of homo
sapiens that left Africa around 100,000 to 150,000 years ago.
DNA from a Croatian Neanderthal who lived about 28,000 years ago
was previously the oldest.
Thorne said most primitive forms of DNA known in living humans
until now had been found in sub-Saharan Africa, leading to the
theory that mankind originated in Africa and left it as modern Homo
Sapiens before spreading around the world.
"And so what we have now found is a lineage that is older than any
of those," Thorne told ABC radio.
"It's earlier than the putative most recent common ancestor, the so-
called Eve point in mitochondrial evolution.
"So under a strict out of Africa hypothesise I have to say well they
were wrong, obviously Eve was an Australian."
Thorne also believes modern Aboriginal Australians descended
from two groups of distinctly different people.
"What I have always argued is that there is a distinct difference
anatomically between these two groups of people," he said.
He believes one group entered Australia about 40,000 years before
the others, a new group of "robust" people, who became visible in
Australia about 20,000 years ago and appear to have arrived with
edge-ground tools.
"I suspect that these new robust people enter Australia with a new
tool kit and then mix together with other people who are already
here to produce the extraordinary mix of people that we now call
Aboriginal Australians," he said.
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