G'day Rowan, hilda, Nigel, Azizi,

The really interesting thing is to see how individuals "slant" an article (I just looked at the Sydney Morning Herald version) that really says what we should all know ... we are all the one race - the one family ... it's called "Human". The DNA testing was to show that suggestions of "cross-breeding with 'earlier forms of homo' were just a "myth" (or, maybe more accurately, "propaganda" for those with their own barrow to push!

Indigenous Australians have had a long time to fit into the land they arrived in at least 50,000 years back - they look different from others - they look Australian! The ancestors of Scandinavians appear to have moved out of the Mediterranean just 2000 years ago - and now they don't look anything like Greek - or Maltese - or Italian people... because they have adapted to a cold climate and largely indoor living - but they are just another part of the big Human family!

We all fit into our place of living and, by and large, those that fit best prosper - and eventually look like they belong there. Maybe the distant descendants of those of "European" background, in Australia, will one day look - much more sensibly - more like those who have been here tens of thousands of years more (as long as we haven't blown up - or otherwise destroyed - the whole planet in the meantime).

Regards,

Bob