The FIRST AUSTRALIANS Were Never What We Thought — Ancient DNA Finally Revealed The Truth Tate And Lyle [WYQJRxytsIz]

65,000 years ago, a group of people made a decision that no human had ever made before. They looked out across open ocean no land visible on the other side and they crossed it anyway. On purpose. With boats, with navigation, with enough people to found a spokane weather civilization from nothing.

They were the First Australians. And for 65,000 years, they built the longest unbroken ttd stock cultural tradition in human history.

For decades, the textbooks told a simple story: one founding migration, one people, spreading in isolation across a vast continent. Then in 2016, a landmark study published in Nature sequenced the genomes of 83 Aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans and the simple story became something far stranger and more profound.

The First Australians carry between 3 and 6 percent Denisovan ancestry more than any other modern human population on Earth. Their founding population didn't simply pass by the Denisovan world. They worst ex ever moved through it, absorbed it, and carried it to the most remote corner of the inhabitable world. And buried within their genomes, the same Population Y signal found in Amazonian populations the same ancient ghost, on opposite sides of the Pacific.

In this episode of The Origins Explainer, we follow the science from the Madjedbebe rock shelter to the genomics lab and find a people whose story reaches further back in time, and further into human capability, than anything the textbooks imagined.