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Three big insights into our African origins
Hawks, John http://medium.com/@johnhawks/three-big-insights-into-our-african-origins-3fa01eb5f03?sk=1d44a1e2a218a60314361ceec4af3e38
Publisher: Medium
Date Written: 03/01/2019
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
John Hawks delivered a lecture to the American Society for Human Genetics, focusing on the African record of human origins.
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I will emphasize three big insights.
First, modern humans did not originate in a bottleneck after 200,000 years ago. Our origin was much deeper in time than this.
Second, our species originated in Africa from deeply structured ancestral populations. These were much more different from each other than any human populations are today. We do not know how they interacted or which gave rise to living peoples.
Third, some of these deeply divergent populations survived in Africa until recent times. During the time of human origins, "modern" humans were not alone.
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