Aboriginals first to populate the world outside Africa

Naturvidenskab
11.258 views
22. september 2011 Aboriginals, Australian Aboriginals, DNA, English, Eske Willerslev, Morten Rasmussen, Science, The Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen
Watch interview with Professor Eske Willerslev who headed an international study that has pieced together the human genome from an Aboriginal Australian. The results, now to be published in the international journal Science, re-interpret the prehistory of our species.

Read more in the official University of Copenhagen press release:
http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2011/2011.9/aboriginals-get-new-history/

Video credits: Voice: Sheena Lauersen. Illustration: Science/AAAS, Sofia Olsen. Stills: Mikal Schlosser, Timothy P. Topper. Camera: Kristoffer Aabo, Henrik Prætorius. Production: Henrik Prætorius.