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Re:Humans are more closely related than we commonly think by danaris on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @08:47AM (#24697113)
Nnnno; 3500 years ago, there were already clearly-separated groups of humans on different continents.

Perhaps you're off by a 0 or two...?

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Re:Humans are more closely related than we commonly think by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:16AM (#24697339)
No, there were fuzzily-separated groups of humans on different continents. There was still some interbreeding across continents.

The Americas may have been clearly separated for a while, but they have done so much interbreeding with people from other continents since 1492, that the common ancestor is more recent than that.

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Re:Humans are more closely related than we commonly think by danaris on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:56PM (#24704895)
I guess that depends much on whether the claim is that literally every human can draw ancestry back to this common pair, or merely the vast majority, because I'm fairly sure there are still "uncontacted" indigenous peoples in the Americas...
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