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Podcast: Real Black Consciousness Forum
Episode: Earliest South American Indians Had Indigenous Australian, Melanesian Ancestry! (Black Indigenous)
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Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/earliest-south-american-migrants-had-australian-melanesian-ancestry
Source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2025739118
According to Science.org:
In 2015, scientists discovered something surprising: that some Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon were distantly—but distinctly—related to native Australians and Melanesians. The genetic signal of Australasian ancestry in so far-flung a population sent researchers scrambling for answers. A new study reveals this genetic signal is more prevalent throughout South America than thought and suggests the...