Aboriginal Australians – are predated by the Indigenous Australians – Mungo Man

Colin Groves and Alan Thorne have been debating their theories for years.  And each is absolutely convinced the other is completely and utterly wrong.

The pair are currently engaged in intense debate about a man who died roughly 60,000 years ago, by the shores of once-verdant Lake Mungo in south-eastern NSW. More specifically, they are arguing about the DNA of a man, now named  Mungo Man.

In a technical attempt to win this debate, a team led by Thorne has extracted and analysed parts of a single gene from Mungo Man. More stunning still, the researchers claim that what they discovered is that the man’s DNA is unlike anything they have ever seen. While Mungo Man was undoubtedly fully modern anatomically, he came from a genetic lineage that is now extinct.

Thorne claims that the findings support his theoretical point of view and discredit Groves’ position entirely. Groves, disagrees and because the finding is so unexpected, scientists around the world have joined the fray.

Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the African continent around 60,000 years ago, and arrived in Australia around 50,000 years ago.  The Torres Strait Islanders are indigenous to the Torres Strait Islands, which are at the northern-most tip of Queensland near Papua New Guinea. The term “Aboriginal” has traditionally been applied to indigenous inhabitants of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and some of the other adjacent islands.

But what did it mean? Well, ANU evolutionary geneticist Simon Easteal set about analysing the DNA from Mungo Man and comparing it with sequences of the same gene from the other early Australians, not to mention 45 living Aboriginal people, 3,453 people from around the world, two European Neanderthals, and finally chimps and bonobos, or pygmy chimps.

Easteal produced a likely “evolutionary tree” for the gene, which is only passed on by women. It went like this: first to branch off were the chimps and bonobos; next the Neanderthals, then Mungo Man’s clan, and after that,the common ancestor of all people alive today.

In other words, Mungo Man’s gene is extinct. According to the out-of-Africa model he should have had a gene like everybody else. But there he was, a physically modern man living in Australia 60,000 years ago with a defunct gene that probably appeared well before the most recent common ancestor of all of us.

So there it lies, Mungo Man appears to precede the known Australian Aborigine, and therefore we CANNOT regard them as Indigenous, they colonised this country prior to the English, however, they were not Indigenous to this land as it is long accepted they came from Papua/New Guinea, and Indonesian origins.

For it is said  “It is in truth we shall truly be freed”