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.

Comments

[tam_nonlinear]

What I can recall of a long ago college course that touched in Aboriginal folklore and mythology did have a fair bit about the other humans that lived in the land, Mimi and others, that sometimes interbred with humans and sometimes ate them.

[dhampyresa]

It's Hairypeople! /been thinking about Cleverman lately

[yhlee]

Happy autumn!

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

"It’s almost like two guys entering a village and saying ‘guys, now we have to speak another language and use another stone tool and they have a little bit of sex in that village and then they disappear again.”

:)

[thanate.livejournal.com]

This is glorious; thank you for sharing it!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

That's awesome!

A had my DNA tested last year, and I am indeed part Neanderthal. :-)

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

that is so cool, I am not yet to the most current writings on DNA, I am up to 2012 books on the subject now... I will get to 2016 soon.