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All humans have evolved for the same amount of time. It is just that a smaller part of the population decided to emigrate than to stay a long time ago.
by username90 7y ago
All humans have evolved for the same amount of time. It is just that a smaller part of the population decided to emigrate than to stay a long time ago.
- bonzini 7y agoMigration causes a genetic bottleneck that (sort of) resets the counter.
- afiori 7y agoyes, but for much longer in Africa than outside of Africa. If you assume that "diversity" increases mostly steadily over time* then there is much more diversity in Africa than in the rest of the world. * diversity is quite different from evolution