She's dragging all her words, giving them new skins

[sovay]

Happy autumn. I just read that DNA evidence affirms that Indigenous Australians are the most ancient continuous civilization on Earth. I find it equally wonderful that in the same way that all humans of non-African descent contain some percentage of Neanderthal DNA, all humans of Indigenous Australian descent contain about 4% genetic admixture from "an unknown archaic population . . . that is closer to Denisovans but also sharing a common ancestor with Neanderthals," i.e., people on this planet we didn't even know about. On being told this last fact, my mother said promptly that she expected it was the gods. I don't know if the deities of Australian myth are the kind that have children, but I like that she thinks of this sort of thing first.

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[dhampyresa]

It is great! The trailer is here.