Indigenous Australians have high levels of genetic diversity Joshua Prieto/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News
There is no such thing as one Indigenous Australian people but rather a continent of extraordinarily genetically-diverse, separate communities with greater genetic variability than between people of European or Asian ancestry. That is the conclusion of two analyses that make up the most detailed survey ever of Indigenous Australian genomes.
The research also pushes back the date of genetic separation between people in Papua New Guinea and those in…
