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As far as I know the scientific consensus is still on the Out of Africa theory.


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...


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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