First inhabitants of Australia arrived in large groups 50,000 years ago

The Aboriginal people in Australia have inhabited the continent for over 50,000 years, which is quite a lot when you remember that the United States has only been an independent nation for 238 years (less than 0.5% of the time Aborigines have been in Australia). Now, a new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution and Scientific Reports has found the likely routes these people took to get to the island nation. Using complex models to determine the island-hopping routes the original migrants could’ve taken to …