Some people in the Brazilian Amazon are very distant relations of indigenous Australians, New Guineans and other Australasians, two groups of scientists who conducted detailed genetic analyses reported. But the researchers disagree on the source of that ancestry. David Reich, professor of genetics, is senior author of one of the papers.
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