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Ism :

It's because they are mixed with denisovans

Hiram :

He looks Tasmanian

teedrillworld :

I’m pretty sure it’s due to the climate

Care2excel :

Even in Africa we do don’t have the same hair type

Alexandra :

Its a moot point. You see Africans with straight hair curly hair etc...

mixednomad :

Many aboriginal have Afro textured hair

Gi Sez :

some recent studies indicate that Indian DNA may have entered Australia 3000-5000 years ago and mixed with the population

rahkeem :

I think using the term “Afro-textured” to describe Tasmanian Aboriginal hair is inaccurate. “Coily-textured” would be a more appropriate and precise term.

Cevush :

It’s just like how Kenyans have 4c hair and Somalis have looser curls, even though they border each other. Same with Papua New Guinea (coily hair) and Indonesia (straight hair) right next door. Borders are man-made, human genetics are just diverse.

Bluey :

Australia is a continent. Huge landmass, lots of variety

Aydo :

we have all different hair types. there's Aboriginal people with straight hair, curly hair, and afro hair. I've seen the variety of hair types with the same family. you can also see Aboriginal people with natural blonde and green eyes.

Kelechi Wachuku12 :

It may have something to do with a difference in sexual selection. Prevailing hypotheses on hair texture differences hover around the idea of climate being the central reason. I don’t think that’s the case anymore (>100,000 years ago is another story), since mainland Australia is exactly where you’d expect to see afro-textured hair, and yet you see loose hair mostly. It’s a very hot, arid landmass. Tasmania, on the other hand, is cool and wetter. Since alleles controlling for hair texture are polygenic, then it means that there has to be collective pressure inducing people with looser hair to keep having offspring with other people with looser hair for looser hair to prevail. And, like you said, Tasmanians were many thousands of years removed from mainlanders, which implies differences in cultural and aesthetic preferences. In the Horn of Africa, for example, Somalis are generally known for having looser hair compared to their neighbors, including Ethiopian highlanders, even though Ethiopian highlanders have more Eurasian ancestry than Somalis do. Egyptians (including Copts) are known for having higher frequencies of peoples with very curly and at times even loosely Afro-textured hair compared to Palestinians despite generally not having tremendously more African ancestry than Palestinians do and having a large prehistoric overlap in ancestry with them.

Laurie :

tons of aboriginals have type 4 hair it legit we have all different some have straight some have tight hair and you also gotta remember the stolen generation so more of them would have mixed people hair that's why you don't see type 4 hair in all of them

donlegend95 :

The Australian aborigines also have bright blonde hair especially the children

jonnnothin :

60,000 years of seperate evolution. Like there weren't even white ppl 60 thousand years ago so its easy enough time to go from curly to wavey hair

Bevan :

Yes 🤦‍♂️plenty of people and Queensland have 4c to straight hair. You just see what you see 🤦‍♂️

mixednomad :

Mum shirl, an indigenous NSW wiradjuri woman, had Afro textured hair

mixednomad :

Lock18 :

It doesn’t look good

humidifier777 :

youre pretty much right bro it is the founder effect. by sheer luck, the people who inhabited Tasmania had high amounts of the coily hair gene, and because they only bred with each other, it became the dominant phenotype. also , mainland australia had much more genetic inflow to allow curly textures to be part of the gene pool

DManfrom6ixx :

Different types of Black people populated Asia and mixed

. :

it's called evolution brother

Finnish111 :

They are related to the people of Papua New Guinea.🇵🇬

Zeno :

I think they mixed with the denisovan hominids and they got that lose hair the Australia

spend_itbtc :

Not all blacks have 4c hair