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In reply to the discussion: Ancestral home of all human beings discovered by scientists [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)33. Interesting and exciting, but CONTROVERSIAL theory.
It's not yet sufficiently proven to be widely accepted. But this is, at least:
The new study, importantly, focuses on analyzing todays African populations, a gaping oversight in many past genetic studies. Everyone recognizes weve been studying Europeans for way too long, says Joshua Akey, a geneticist at Princeton University. As studies go out and sample more human genomic diversity, well eventually have a more deep and clear understanding of human history.
Fascinating what we're learning these days. But itm, fine if all this instead causes some a nasty moment before reactionary rejection kicks in. Science says they'll all die off.
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That has alway confused me the disparity of a few years between 200,000 and 6000. Rounding error?
usaf-vet
Oct 2019
#10
Yup: Calling Homer Stokes from "Oh Brother": Dees Boys Ain't White! They ain't even old timey!
flibbitygiblets
Oct 2019
#5
I'm not sure we can pinpoint the time in history when "pure" genetic heritage existed.
Eyeball_Kid
Oct 2019
#29
That was Bill Maher's response to Trump's birther nonsense. Dump actually tried to sue him.
Crunchy Frog
Oct 2019
#71
I thought the earliest modern humans were from North Africa 300,000 to 3500,000 years ago
jpak
Oct 2019
#20
very cool. this would have been about when humans began to become 90% right handed
certainot
Oct 2019
#24
Actually, right hand preference goes back much further, and included Neanderthals and possibly much
Crunchy Frog
Oct 2019
#73
well, the apes and chimps are generally 50-50 and masturbate so maybe it started after that
certainot
Oct 2019
#74
Much smaller numbers made it past the average age, but very few assume all were dead by 46.
roamer65
Oct 2019
#60
If you made it into adulthood back in 1900, odds were pretty good you'd live well past 48
Kaleva
Oct 2019
#59
The theory is that this region was good to live in then, but not the surrounding ones
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2019
#63