Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa Discovered in Israeli Cave

Re:Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa Discovered... by themgt on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:35PM (#16234903)

You can read John Hawks, quoted in this post's linked NYT article, with his own take on recent findings[1], echoing many of the points made by Razib Khan. Even Chris Stringer, one of most vocal & staunch advocates for a simple Out of Africa has recently walked that back [2]

If you are reading experts still standing behind a simplistic Out of Africa model after all the recent findings of archaic admixture and incredibly deep splits in human populations, I'd be very curious to see some links to papers/articles.

[1] https://medium.com/@johnhawks/the-story-of-modern-human-orig...

[2] https://www.edge.org/conversation/christopher_stringer-rethi...

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Re:Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa Discovered... by Nomentatus on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:41PM (#16236408)

There is one massive clue pointing to Africa: more genetic diversity there. This doesn't rule out interesting additions from other populations that left earlier than others, went further than we thought, etc; but it is the elephant in the room. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24984772

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