[Sonsowey]

Reading Greg Cochran's West Hunter blog, a commenter made a comment that Tasmanian aboriginals were not able to interbreed with Europeans, implying they were not Homo Sapiens but a relic population.

Obviously Australian aboriginals were able to interbreed with Europeans.

Does anyone know any more about this?

https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/07/1...-crossers/

Quote:

Tasmanian type aboriginals (Mungo type) existed outside Tasmania to modern times, largely in the colder and wetter parts of Australia. They remained a separate and distinct “race” from the “mainland” aboriginals, which suggests that crossbreeds were rare and subfertile. They became extinct on the mainland as in Tasmania, possibly as a result of sex with white males, which was effectively non reproductive sex, and because their lands were more attractive to whites.

Tasmanian aboriginals became extinct, and left no known mixed breed descendents. All tasmanian “descendents” with documented ancestry are descended from an aboriginal that was very clearly mainland type.