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Aboriginal Men Have Indian Chromosome

 ▶Aussie aboriginal males having indian genes. chromosome in south india | + men + indian + dravidian + aboriginal + india + seafarers + south + have aboriginal ha men chromosome go south we india | found. ◀ | It seems obvious that the main heritage of Australian Aboriginals is not Indian and people of Papua New Guinea are not directly related to Australian natives either.  Research done on native Australian men shows their Y chromosome is the same as men in India.      ||| indian if south men aboriginal me seafarers found no have as found eh en aboriginal do dravidian of seafarers go have australia south dravidian | Apparently, 4,000 years ago Indian seafarers landed in Australia.  Whether it was planned or accidental is not known.  The newcomers were taken in.  When European colonists got lost in the bush Aboriginal did not kill them.  The wayward were usually found months later living happily with them.      ||| o...

A Mermaid? No a Dugong!

Early traditional legends describe mermaids:  supernatural beings that lived in the sea, a combination of human and fish. As time went on, they were described as having a human body and a fish’s tail. But where did the mermaid legend come from?  For centuries, sailors travelled the oceans and returned to their homelands with tales of exotic creatures from distant shores, one of which was the mermaid. These sailors had been on the high seas for months. They may have been dehydrated, suffering from sunstroke, ill or simply lonely.  They saw creature with smooth bodies and long flowing hair swimming through the water. Mermaids! Of course to our eyes a dugong ( Dugong dugori ) does not look much like a mermaid. But to a lonely sailor with the sun in his eyes, these graceful aquatic human-like creatures could have captured the imagination. The long flowing hair was possibly sea grasses, which the dugong feeds on.  In an early record in his book, A Voyage to New Holla...