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Doesn't seem contradictory to me tbh. If the person in Spain descended from someone who left Sub-Saharan Africa 50k years earlier, they wouldn't necessarily be
by Rebelgecko 4y ago
Doesn't seem contradictory to me tbh. If the person in Spain descended from someone who left Sub-Saharan Africa 50k years earlier, they wouldn't necessarily be closely related to a genetically distinct population in North Africa (especially since IIRC there's evidence of people from Eurasia migrating to North Africa, it wasn't a one-way exodus where people left Africa and only expanded outward)
- edgyquant 4y ago> who left Sub-Saharan Africa 50k years earlier, [citation needed]. We have human bones from outside of Africa that predate this. Some of the oldest are found in the Middle East/Caucasus.
- andsoitis 4y agoCitation: Some of the oldest human remains ever unearthed are the Omo One bones found in Ethiopia. For decades, their precise age has been debated, but a new study argues they're around 233,000 years old. https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072867405/scientists-determine-age-of-some-of-the-oldest-human-bones https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072867405/scientists-determi...
- Rebelgecko 4y agoThere's a good amount of evidence showing multiple migrations out of Africa (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.012, http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-9012 http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-9012). The presence of someone who came after the oldest hypothesized migration doesn't negate previous waves.