A blood group genetical survey in Australian aborigines at Haast's Bluff, Central Australia

✍ Scribed by R. T. Simmons; N. M. Semple; J. B. Cleland; J. R. Casley-Smith

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1957
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 311 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9483
• DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330150406

✦ Synopsis

Investigations concerning the blood groups of Australian aborigines have been made for over 35 years, with the result that the A-B-0 blood groups for natives in most parts of Australia are known. One of us (J.B.C.) demonstrated that unmixed aborigines of South Australia and the Northern Territory did not possess group B, and that the frequency of 0 was generally greater than the frequency of A . Dr. A. H. Tebbutt of Sydney in still earlier surveys had found group B in natives of Barambah, Queensland. It is now known that group B had been introduced to Australian aborigines by admixture with other peoples, particularly by Melanesians of New Guinea, in the Cape York area, by Malays on the west coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, by Chinese gold seekers in Queensland during and after the gold-rush, and also by New Hebrideans (Melanesians) brought to Queensland many years ago to work in the sugar cane fields.