A new study suggests that DNA sequencing may be able to help the bones of the Aboriginal Australian dead speak for themselves. Evolutionary biologist Joanne Wright of Griffith University and her ...

A new look at ancient bones with the latest DNA technology has confirmed Aboriginal Australians as the continent's first people. Human remains at Lake Mungo are the oldest in Australia 2001 ...

Our research, published in Science Advances today, shows it is possible to determine the origin of Aboriginal Australian remains using DNA-based methods, enabling their return to Country.

From then until the 18th-century arrival of European colonists, aboriginal Australians did not mix their DNA with anyone else in the world — or so many scientists believed. Now a study has ...

This made the man’s DNA a perfect candidate for looking at the history of Aboriginal migration. Studying his DNA, the researchers found that the ancestors of Australian Aboriginals had split from the ...

For centuries, Aboriginal Australians have said they ... Now, one of the most extensive analyses of Indigenous Australian DNA to date suggests that they've been right all along.

They also obtained saliva samples from 100 living Aboriginal Australians. Prior to the new study, DNA had been successfully retrieved from only one individual from Australia’s pre-colonization ...

The study that focused on DNA from Aboriginal Australians concluded that all non-African humans can trace their ancestry back to that single, massive exodus from Africa some 72,000 years ago.

DNA analysis of a 90-year-old hair sample reveals that Aboriginal Australians left Africa much earlier than Europeans and East Asians New research in the journal Science presents a number of ...

Led by the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG) at ANU, research teams examined the DNA of 160 Indigenous Australians from four Aboriginal communities in the Central Desert, Far North ...