Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? Jackdaws can identify “dangerous” humans from listening to each other’s warning calls, scientists say. Previous genetic studies, along with archaeological evidence of imported tools and a change in language, had suggested that the dingo had arrived with south-east Asians who had settled in Australia and interbred with local Aboriginals. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. The bones belonged to two large rodent species and a small shrew-like animal, Scientists at the University of Maryland have created a fabric that adapts to heat, expanding to allow more heat to escape the body when warm and compacting to retain more heat when cold, A study from the University of Tokyo has found that the tears of baby mice cause female mice to be less interested in the sexual advances of males, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a report which projects the impact of a rise in global temperatures of 1.5 degrees Celsius and warns against a higher increase, The nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to three chemists working with evolution. Posted In: Uncategorized. The researchers liaised closely with Aboriginal communities to carry out the DNA analysis and have already shared their results with them, he said. Geneticists have calculated from mutations present in the Aboriginal Y chromosome that the first inhabitants of Australia had separated from other members of Homo sapiens living elsewhere in the world about 50,000 years ago – probably long before our species had arrived to live in Europe. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? In the study, a person unknown to the wild jackdaws approached their nest. The findings of the study, however, fail to explain the arrival of the dingo wild dog in Australia, which is not a native species and was almost certainly brought by humans to the continent from other parts of south-east Asia. The CIs reported above take into account the uncertainty of the Y chromosome point … Fossils unearthed in Peru have led scientists to conclude that the enormous creatures that traverse the planet’s oceans today are descended from small hoofed ancestors that lived in south Asia 50 million years ago, A scientist has stumbled upon a creature with a “transient anus” that appears only when it is needed, before vanishing completely. Aboriginal Australians have been genetically isolated from the rest of humanity for 50,000 years with no direct evidence that they had ever intermarried with South-East Asians about 4,000 years ago, as some scholars have suggested, a DNA study has revealed. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. Using sensitive analysis of the chemical composition of sweat, researchers were able to tell the difference between those who had been directly exposed to heroin and cocaine, and those who had encountered it indirectly. Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou were jointly awarded the prize for developing chirped-pulse amplification of lasers, The Ledumahadi Mafube roamed around 200 million years ago in what is now South Africa. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. But by wiggling around the egg, embryos can find the “Goldilocks Zone” which means they are able to shield themselves against extreme thermal conditions and produce a balanced sex ratio, according to the new study published in Current Biology journal. DNA study says there is no direct evidence they ever intermarried with South-East Asians as some had suggested, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. "But it's completely different. It was known that Australia and Papua New Guinea – geographically known as Sahul – were populated very early in human history, but the extent of the geographic and genetic isolation is only now becoming apparent with genome analysis. Pluto has a 'beating heart' of frozen nitrogen that is doing strange things to its surface, Nasa has found. Warm temperatures favour females. Lesley Williams, an Aboriginal elder, said that “science has confirmed what our ancestors have taught us over many generations – that we have lived here since the Dreaming”. “We have disproved interbreeding with south-east Asians at least for the Y lineage of the male chromosome but we have not yet been able to prove that it had not happened in the non-Y lineage – but it seems unlikely,” Dr Tyler Smith said. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. However the latest study, published in the journal Current Biology by an Anglo-Australian team of researchers, rules out any interbreeding with non-Aboriginals, at least down the male line of descent, said Chris Tyler Smith, an evolutionary geneticist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge. 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