[zeestephen]

I read this quickly and did not see a reference point I saw in an earlier article:

Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA is not found in native born Africans.

That, of course, would fracture the politically correct conventional wisdom that all modern humans evolved on the exact same evolutionary branch from Africa.

I'm going to guess that Progressive journalists and Progressive academics are going to avoid that topic as long as they can.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’m thinking you are correct.

[OldNewYork]

Multi-regional evolution has been sidelined for a long time before these discoveries, for that very reason. But in parts of the world where academics aren’t encouraged to look like pajama boy, it has had better respect, even, if I recall correctly, being the dominant model.

[Leto]

Actually the from what i have seen it seems as per anthropological geneticist that the human race was almost wiped out ~50-100k years ago and we are all derived from a group of ~ 200 IIRC Bushmen in S Africa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDXIX-y6aY

Fascinating video.

[Natufian]

If I understand correctly, neither Neanderthal or Denisovians would be classed as modern humans.

[Fuzz]

That’s because Neanderthals and Denisovans aren’t modern humans. Pretty simple.