I'm not sure I understand what you're saying? The article explains that modern humans actually don't descend exclusively from homo sapiens, but also have linea

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying? The article explains that modern humans actually don't descend exclusively from homo sapiens, but also have lineage from Neanderthals and Denisovans, and that's just of the ones we know. So the article seems to talk about the origin of modern humans as in the people alive today that we'd all consider to be human. That's why he specifies that now we understand that what we thought in the 80s, that modern humans = homo sapiens, we now know is wrong, as we now know that modern humans involve a more complex lineage. But what we thought of the homo sapiens lineage does seem to be correct though. At least that's what I understood of the article. Now I don't know how precise and correct and up to date the article is.