LOL! To say the least, the complete (or nearly complete) replacement was unlikely to have been 100% kumbaya. The complete disappearance of those earlier male lines suggests a small initial population, and/or a smaller male population (due to polygamy) in the earlier population. It also speaks to the general kookiness of the now abandoned conclusion that so-called mitochondrial Eve was 50K to 100K years older than Y-Adam.
Sidebars from the FRchives:
“LOL! To say the least, the complete (or nearly complete) replacement was unlikely to have been 100% kumbaya. The complete disappearance of those earlier male lines suggests a small initial population, and/or a smaller male population (due to polygamy)”
Not necessarily true.
A. Small only needed to be much smaller than the waves of new settlers.
B. Neither is warfare between settlers and natives out of the question as far as the number of “native” procreating males, or over time, the number of procreating males from the settler population as much much higher due to greater status as part of the new dominant class.
C. Nothing requires that polygamy HAD TO BE part of the reason for a smaller ratio of native males to settler males. The inmigrating population could have been vastly larger.
I thought the mitochondrial Eve was caused by theToba supervolcano eruption of 75000 years ago. Narrowing the human population down to a few thousand