The story of how people reached Australia and the Pacific has never sat still. Bits of evidence have shifted it back and forth over time. New genetic work, read alongside archaeology, nudges it ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier than some recent theories suggested. By tracing maternal DNA lineages, the ...

A new study of nearly 2,500 genomes may have finally settled the debate about when modern humans arrived in Australia. Using a diverse database of DNA from ancient and contemporary Aboriginal people ...