https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/25/world/wallacea-skeleton-dna-discovery-scn/index.html

(CNN)The bones of a teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi tell the story of a previously unknown group of humans.

This distinct human lineage has never been found anywhere else in the world, according to new research.

The study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

“We have discovered the first ancient human DNA in the island region between Asia and Australia, known as ‘Wallacea’, providing new insight into the genetic diversity and population history of early modern humans in this little understood part of the world,” said study coauthor Adam Brumm, a professor of archaeology at Griffith University’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, via email.

Cool!

Just this week, I’ve been showing Mini Me pics of Lucy and talking about hominids who lived before us. (She’s still a bit unclear about the whole thing but that hasn’t stopped her from telling her whole class about it.)

Divine Angel said:

Cool!

Just this week, I’ve been showing Mini Me pics of Lucy and talking about hominids who lived before us. (She’s still a bit unclear about the whole thing but that hasn’t stopped her from telling her whole class about it.)

Is this new one related to Java Man?

https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/first-ancient-human-dna-recovered-from-islands-between-asia-and-australia-20210825-p58ltq.html

Divine Angel said:

Cool!

Just this week, I’ve been showing Mini Me pics of Lucy and talking about hominids who lived before us. (She’s still a bit unclear about the whole thing but that hasn’t stopped her from telling her whole class about it.)

That is fantastic DA!

I have been drumming into my kids the FAST approach to learning…

F – Forget everything you think you do or don’t know
A – Be active, ask questions etc.
S – Check your state, your posture etc
T – Learn it to teach it

Your daughter has the “T” sorted, and obviously feels that she has learnt enough to explain it well enough to others :)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-26/qantas-loss-remains-large-even-before-sydney-lockdown/100408510

QANTAS has made a huge loss, mostly in depreciation obviously, so this has me wondering about all their planes in storage. I don’t know how they apply depreciation figures, but let’s say they depreciate each plane over a useful life of 20 years. If most of those planes are grounded for say, 5 years, how much useful life, if any, would that actually add?

Speedy said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-26/qantas-loss-remains-large-even-before-sydney-lockdown/100408510

QANTAS has made a huge loss, mostly in depreciation obviously, so this has me wondering about all their planes in storage. I don’t know how they apply depreciation figures, but let’s say they depreciate each plane over a useful life of 20 years. If most of those planes are grounded for say, 5 years, how much useful life, if any, would that actually add?

Wrong thread, I think.

Witty Rejoinder said:

https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/first-ancient-human-dna-recovered-from-islands-between-asia-and-australia-20210825-p58ltq.html

“The recovery of human DNA from the 7200-year-old remains of a woman in the islands between Asia and Australia has given researchers incredible insight into how and when ancient peoples first reached the region. The woman belongs to an isolated group of humans – called “Toaleans” by researchers – who are known from a handful of skeletons and an abundance of distinctive stone arrowheads, and who died out about 1500 years ago.”

Around before the Austronesians.

Which in turn were around before the Polynesians?

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/7-300-year-old-sulawesi-woman-belonged-to-unknown-lineage-of-humans-1.10149434?