Let’s close off the claim to Indigenous Australians, and just move on as Australian’s on equal footing, sharing the same rights, the same laws and the same flag, for they did no more than colonise in Australia in a similar way to what we did years later.
Up until the 1950’s, it was widely believed that Australia wasn’t inhabited by the Aboriginals until 10,000 years ago. The breakthrough use of Carbon 14 dating extended the date to around 40,000 years ago, more complex dating procedures have extended this to 60,000-70,000 years ago.
This extension to 40,000 and then 60,000+ years has occurred since the discovery of Mungo Man. He was largely given the tag of the first Indigenous Australian aborigine and in essence this is true, as he predates the Australian aborigine by some 50,000 years and his DNA is now non existent.
Mungo Man is dated up to 60,000+ years ago and has a genetic tag that is now extinct, prior to his discovery the current Australian Aborigine is only dated back to 10,000 years, it is really logical to conclude that Indigenous Mungo Man is not related to the current Australian Aborigine and therefore they can no longer claim to be Indigenous to Australia.
The word Indigenous means being the “original inhabitants” of a territory
ANU evolutionary geneticist Simon Easteal set about analysing the DNA from Mungo Man and comparing it with sequences of the same gene from the other early Australians, not to mention 45 living Aboriginal people, 3,453 people from around the world, two European Neanderthals, and finally chimps and bonobos, or pygmy chimps.
Easteal produced a likely “evolutionary tree” for the gene, which is only passed on by women. It went like this: first to branch off were the chimps and bonobos; next the Neanderthals, then Mungo Man’s clan, and after that, the common ancestor of all people alive today.
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