The Origins of Australians and Papuans

The man from oase belonged to a group that had diverged from the ancestors of those others quite early on. He was a descendant of that initial founding group out of africa, but his genes showd that he was no closer to present day europeans than he was to to day's estasians. Even before these three people lived, other groups of modern humans were making their way throughout asia,. lonizing its nooks and crannies. One of them met up with a group of the enigmatic denisovans, our archaic human cousins, probably somewhere in southeast asia. The descendants of this group then went on to cross a short stretch of open sea