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Re:Rethinking our human origins in Africa by patrickg_zill on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:46AM (#18167350)
It's been obvious for a while now, that the out of Africa theory was far too simplistic.

Denisovan DNA for instance, of which there is no sign in any African and very few European people...

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Re:Rethinking our human origins in Africa by jshowa1 on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:13AM (#18168163)
Except the article still says its out of Africa, just not from a single region in Africa.
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Re:Rethinking our human origins in Africa by pharrington on Monday October 08, 2018 @03:22PM (#18170480)
Homo sapiens evolved within African, from several apparently separate and only occasionally intermixing populations.

My intuition is that something extremely similar happened for Neanderthals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia.

After speciating, Denisovans and Neanderthals migrated at least within Eurasia, and those populations intermixed.

At least as early as that was happening, Homo sapiens started migrating out of Africa, and intermixed with the Homo genus populations they encountered. At some later point, distinctly Neanderthal, Denisovan, and Neanderthal/Denisovan populations apparently died off.

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