This latest research suggests that Aboriginal Australians and New Guineans have the longest unbroken ancestry of any group outside of Africa.

Nearly 250 years ago, Europeans established their first permanent settlement in Australia and came into contact with the continent’s Aboriginal people. Now, a new study published in Science Advances has determined when these Aboriginal inhabitants arrived in Oceania themselves.

The study involved the analysis of nearly 2,500 genomes from Aboriginal communities across Australia, New Guinea, and other Pacific islands to clarify the timeline of when the first modern humans landed on Sahul, a prehistoric continent that included modern-day Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.

Not only did the team find evidence of human habitation as far back as 60

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