If you want to read a bit more about the #OutOfAfrica theory, I wrote a short overview of the model about a year ago on my blog:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-01-01-out_of_africa_theory/
#outofafrica — Public Fediverse posts
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A new study by David Reich proposes that an early #ModernHuman range expansion ~300,000 years ago may have played a key role in #Neanderthal origins. Spatial population models could explain how Neanderthals retained mostly archaic ancestry, while carrying modern-human #mtDNA & Y #chromosomes.
📝 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711219v2
this may push parts of the #OutOfAfrica story much further back in time, linking early modern humans in #Africa & #Europe already ~300 ka.