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Re:Oldest Human Genomes Reveal How a Small Group Burst Out o... by pvg on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @03:00AM (#42448824)
Is it not possible that:

You'd be able to look for and find some evidence of their ancestors in Australia and you don't. But there's plenty of it in Africa.

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Re:Oldest Human Genomes Reveal How a Small Group Burst Out o... by Mountain_Skies on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @10:55AM (#42451524)
That assumes all evidence is equally easy to find and has been equally searched for.
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Re:Oldest Human Genomes Reveal How a Small Group Burst Out o... by pvg on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @02:04PM (#42453674)
Sort of but we're not talking about apes and monkeys here, it's placental mammals in general. So the evidence is overwhelming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammals_of_Australia#Evolution...

If we got this wrong, most of paleontology is unreliable.

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Re:Oldest Human Genomes Reveal How a Small Group Burst Out o... by pfannkuchen on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @12:40PM (#42452803)
Africa is a static large site of habitation where the disappearance of 99% of evidence would still leave easily findable evidence. In GP’s scenario the habitation would be transient. Not really comparable.
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