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You can read John Hawks, quoted in this post's linked NYT article, with his own take on recent findings[1], echoing many of the points made by Razib Khan. Even
by themgt 9y ago
You can read John Hawks, quoted in this post's linked NYT article, with his own take on recent findings[1], echoing many of the points made by Razib Khan. Even Chris Stringer, one of most vocal & staunch advocates for a simple Out of Africa has recently walked that back [2]
If you are reading experts still standing behind a simplistic Out of Africa model after all the recent findings of archaic admixture and incredibly deep splits in human populations, I'd be very curious to see some links to papers/articles.
[1] https://medium.com/@johnhawks/the-story-of-modern-human-origins-just-got-more-complicated-9e435bea24f6 https://medium.com/@johnhawks/the-story-of-modern-human-orig...
[2] https://www.edge.org/conversation/christopher_stringer-rethinking-out-of-africa https://www.edge.org/conversation/christopher_stringer-rethi...
- Nomentatus 9y agoThere is one massive clue pointing to Africa: more genetic diversity there. This doesn't rule out interesting additions from other populations that left earlier than others, went further than we thought, etc; but it is the elephant in the room. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24984772 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24984772