"Modern Humans Descended from Two Ancestral Populations" Topic
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Tango01  | 29 Oct 2025 1:15 p.m. PST |
"For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single lineage. However, according to new research from the University of Cambridge, modern humans are a result of two populations (potentially Homo heidelbergensis and Homo erectus) that diverged 1.5 million years ago and came together in an admixture event 300,000 years ago, in a ratio of 80:20%…"
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| Andrew Walters | 30 Oct 2025 12:16 p.m. PST |
The idea that the human population became separated geographically, diverged genetically, then re-encoutered each other and intermarried seems kind of obvious. The only question is the where and when. I'm glad they're mapping it out in more detail. |
| Tango01 | 30 Oct 2025 3:37 p.m. PST |
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