[JimSEA]

That would follow is ideas presented by Openheimer in “The Real Eve”. However the Toba eruption would have moderns east of the line of volcanic devastation 75,000 + years ago. 100k years for China seems a real stretch though??

[shuckmaster]

Correct. Most other geneticists put the split from Africa closer to 60kya which is well after Toba and putting a real rush to get to Australia. The only way the China finding could fit into the picture is if it’s from an earlier extinct migration much the way the Israel finding is suspected of being.