SYDNEY: People from the Indian sub-continent migrated to Australia and mixed with Aborigines 4,000 years ago, bringing the dingo dog with them, according to a study published on Tuesday.
The continent was thought to have been isolated from other populations until Europeans landed at the end of the 1700s.
But researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, reported "evidence of substantial gene flow between Indian populations and Australia about 4,000 years ago".
They analysed genetic variation from across the genome from Australian Aborigines, New Guineans, Southeast Asians, and Indians.
"Long before Europeans settled in Australia humans had migrated from the Indian subcontinent to Australia and mixed with Australian Aborigines," the study said.
It found "substantial gene flow from India to Australia 4,230 years ago ie... well before European contact," it said.
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The continent was thought to have been isolated from other populations until Europeans landed at the end of the 1700s.
But researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, reported "evidence of substantial gene flow between Indian populations and Australia about 4,000 years ago".
They analysed genetic variation from across the genome from Australian Aborigines, New Guineans, Southeast Asians, and Indians.
"Long before Europeans settled in Australia humans had migrated from the Indian subcontinent to Australia and mixed with Australian Aborigines," the study said.
It found "substantial gene flow from India to Australia 4,230 years ago ie... well before European contact," it said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/
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