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New analysis shows three human migrations out of Africa, Replacement theory 'demolished'
Washington University in St. Louis ^ | 02 February 2006 | Tony Fitzpatrick

Posted on 02/10/2006 2:54:05 AM PST by PatrickHenry

A new, more robust analysis of recently derived human gene trees by Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D, of Washington University in St Louis, shows three distinct major waves of human migration out of Africa instead of just two, and statistically refutes — strongly — the 'Out of Africa' replacement theory.

That theory holds that populations of Homo sapiens left Africa 100,000 years ago and wiped out existing populations of humans. Templeton has shown that the African populations interbred with the Eurasian populations — thus, making love, not war.

"The 'Out of Africa' replacement theory has always been a big controversy," Templeton said. "I set up a null hypothesis and the program rejected that hypothesis using the new data with a probability level of 10 to the minus 17th. In science, you don't get any more conclusive than that. It says that the hypothesis of no interbreeding is so grossly incompatible with the data, that you can reject it."


Homo sapiens: 'Out of Africa' three distinct times, new analysis shows

Templeton's analysis is considered to be the only definitive statistical test to refute the theory, dominant in human evolution science for more than two decades.

"Not only does the new analysis reject the theory, it demolishes it," Templeton said.

Templeton published his results in the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 2005.

A trellis, not a tree

He used a computer program called GEODIS, which he created in 1995 and later modified with the help of David Posada, Ph.D., and Keith Crandall, Ph.D. at Brigham Young University, to determine genetic relationships among and within populations based on an examination of specific haplotypes, clusters of genes that are inherited as a unit.

In 2002, Templeton analyzed ten different haplotype trees and performed phylogeographic analyses that reconstructed the history of the species through space and time.

Three years later, he had 25 regions to analyze and the data provided molecular evidence of a third migration, this one the oldest, back to 1.9 million years ago.

"This time frame corresponds extremely well with the fossil record, which shows Homo erectus expanding out of Africa then," Templeton said.

Another novel find is that populations of Homo erectus in Eurasia had recurrent genetic interchange with African populations 1.5 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought, and that these populations persisted instead of going extinct, which some human evolution researchers thought had occurred.

The new data confirm an expansion out of Africa to 700,000 years ago that was detected in the 2002 analysis.

"Both (the 1.9 million and 700,000 year) expansions coincide with recent paleoclimatic data that indicate periods of very high rainfall in eastern Africa, making what is now the Sahara Desert a savannah," Templeton said. "That makes the timing very amenable for movements of large populations through the area."

Templeton said that the fossil record indicates a significant change in brain size for modern humans at 700,000 years ago as well as the adaptation and expansion of a new stone tool culture first found in Africa and later at 700,000 years expanded throughout Eurasia.

"By the time you're done with this phase you can be 99 percent confident that there was recurrent genetic interchange between African and Eurasian populations," he said. "So the idea of pure, distinct races in humans does not exist. We humans don't have a tree relationship, rather a trellis. We're intertwined."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: africa; bloodbath; creation; crevolist; dmanisi; evolution; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; homoerectus; multiregionalism; origin; origins; outofafrica
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To: CobaltBlue
But I wonder what else they'll do with it? Makes me just a tiny bit paranoid. If I give them a sample, who owns my DNA?

Baptism for the dead is done on the basis of written records, not DNA.

Your DNA that would be used for research, would not ever be used for any other purpose.

Now, if you have a relative who joined the church, they would be interested in your Family History.

121 posted on 02/25/2006 9:48:21 AM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: wolfcreek

Well, to start with for a long time the only “color” found in human pigment was black. Last year they reported that some have red pigment.


122 posted on 06/04/2007 7:48:59 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Note: this topic is from AGES AGO.This re-ping is just for updating purposes, also it's interesting (and was posted by Patrick Henry).

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123 posted on 09/08/2009 8:33:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: PatrickHenry; kentj; Adder; ToryHeartland; Vaquero; Varda; Junior; SunkenCiv
That theory holds that populations of Homo sapiens left Africa 100,000 years ago and wiped out existing populations of humans. Templeton has shown that the African populations interbred with the Eurasian populations — thus, making love, not war.

Why can't it be more like war and rape like was the norm in warfare before we got civilized?

124 posted on 09/09/2009 6:32:13 AM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: kentj
Good to have you BACK! Hope the Luddites don't rankle you too much.

Homo erectus = Neaderthals+Peking so how does that flesh out??

and has any one asked Milford Wolpoff about the whole thing.

125 posted on 09/09/2009 7:46:39 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: PatrickHenry
Good to have you BACK! Hope the Luddites don't rankle you too much.

Homo erectus = Neaderthals+Peking so how does that flesh out??

and has any one asked Milford Wolpoff about the whole thing.

126 posted on 09/09/2009 7:48:08 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: kentj

Oooops, wrong poster...sorry.

I was senting the last one to PatrickHenry


127 posted on 09/09/2009 7:48:51 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: PatrickHenry
Everyone should watch NatGeos “Human Family Tree”. Very well done analysis.
128 posted on 09/09/2009 7:50:36 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit The law will be followed, dammit!)
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To: PatrickHenry

ping me.

Vaquero


129 posted on 09/09/2009 7:53:30 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: SunkenCiv

oh Crap.....I thought PatrickHenry was back....I asked him to re ping me....shoot.

nevermind.......


130 posted on 09/09/2009 7:55:27 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Nikas777

Precisely: the “interbreeding” could very well have been the result of rapine and pillaging.

It worked for the Romans.....


131 posted on 09/09/2009 8:18:13 AM PDT by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09!)
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To: Adder
I hate when scientists insert ideologies (in this case the theory humans were like peace loving flower power hippies in the olden days) in their theories.

More than likely one set of humans killed the men folk - ATE THEM - and raped the females (all ages) and kept the ones that got pregnant and killed AND ATE the rest.

132 posted on 09/09/2009 8:23:30 AM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: SunkenCiv
It's so funny that you pinged this one. Add this one to the collection, weird, it was put out today, by the Independent[Can't post on FR].

A skull that rewrites the history of man

One of the skulls discovered in Georgia, which are believed to date back 1.8 million years

133 posted on 09/09/2009 10:14:03 AM PDT by BGHater (Insanity is voting for Republicans and expecting Conservatism.)
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Fossil find in Georgia challenges theories on early humans-Guardian

A skull from one of the five early Homo erectus skeletons unearthed at Dmanisi in Georgia. They are the earliest human remains to be discovered outside Africa.

134 posted on 09/09/2009 12:06:49 PM PDT by BGHater (Insanity is voting for Republicans and expecting Conservatism.)
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To: Strategerist
What needs explaining are how tiny the differences are; there's more genetic diversity in the average Chimpanzee troupe of a couple dozen Chimpanzees than in the entire human race

Supervolcano eruption 70,000 years ago .... Tomu or Tormu ... google it.

135 posted on 09/09/2009 12:13:06 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (The way to destroy a countercultural movement is to have white people start liking it.)
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To: BGHater

Thanks BGHater!


136 posted on 09/09/2009 3:23:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Vaquero

:’)


137 posted on 09/09/2009 3:26:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Nikas777

Wait a second... we’re civilized?!? ;’)


138 posted on 09/09/2009 3:26:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: BGHater
Tbilisi skull site:freerepublic.com
Google

139 posted on 09/09/2009 3:47:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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140 posted on 07/09/2016 11:35:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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