A scientific study of Aboriginal DNA has discovered new details about the way in which the first inhabitants spread across the continent around 50,000 years ago. Image: Map of Australia showing ...

Using the investigative muscle of DNA analysis, the Aboriginal Heritage Project plans to use information stored in the hair to map Aboriginal genetic history, revealing ancient lineages and ...

The DNA test indicated otherwise ... It’s one of the four major Native American groups that populated the continent. These groups are called clans, and all trace back to four female ancestors ...

Interesting fact: The first sequence of the Australian Aboriginal genome was obtained from an 80-year-old lock of hair, which had been a gift from a young Aboriginal man to a British ethnologist ...