Greens and Invasion Day., page-67

Sorry @RedCedar I didn't mean to single you out, my comment was aimed at our lovely green friends who want to change Australia Day.

The genetics of Australian Aboriginals is very interesting in that they they have a significant genetic contribution from the Denisovans. The Denisovans are an even more distantly related hominid than the Neanderthals. The really interesting thing is descendant of Denisovans are only found on the Australasian side of Wallace line [2].

There has been some recent genomic studies on Aborigines and it appears that the are descended from a human population that arrived between 10 to 32,000 years ago and who bred with the Denisovans on this side of the Wallace line [3]. This would suggest that the Aborigines haven't been in Australia for 40,000 years or 80,000 years as some of the new archaeologic evidence suggests, but that the Denisovans were here first and the place was stolen from them.

Of course this is all far to controversial for anyone in the media to talk about.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line
3. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18299