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> Previous studies revealed that foragers from the Kalahari desert descend from an ancestral population who was the first to split from all other extant humans.
by suzzer99 3y ago
> Previous studies revealed that foragers from the Kalahari desert descend from an ancestral population who was the first to split from all other extant humans.
I'd be interested to know if they have a rough time frame for when this happened. 100k years ago? 500k years ago? I assume the neanderthals, denisovans and florensians were already around at this point?
- AbrahamParangi 3y agoI believe the Khoi-San split from other human populations around 250kya. For context all populations outside of Africa diverged less than 70kya and the Neanderthalis/Sapiens split happened closer to 750kya.