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Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry by AlotOfReading on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:22PM (#34990305)
Australasia has not been joined to the rest of the world by land bridges for tens of millions of years. That's why so much of the fauna is strange and unusual. Humans are one of the few mammalian species that have managed to cross the deep water barriers on our own.
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Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry by runsWphotons on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:38PM (#34990433)
New Guinea was until end of ice age though I believe.
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Re:Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry by verytrivial on Thursday March 02, 2023 @03:55AM (#34993563)
True, you've never been able to just walk it like you could to Tasmania. I mean millions of years ago, Australia was further south -- it's been inching north[1]. Sea levels around the last glacial maximum[2] made the distances much more 'canue-able'. I would consider that at least 'more connected', but you are correct.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/03/mind-the-gap... [2] https://phys.org/news/2018-04-island-hopping-route-people-au...

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