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The Neanderthal Problem That Scientists Don't Want To Discuss youtu.be/YVR88OdJeng

@AnthropoTube I didn't make up the chart

@HighlyCitedX Then why are 5 of L3's 7 subclades African if L3 originated in Eurasia?

Study used a different molecular clock and found much older ages for mtDNA Haplogroups. Out of Africa 165kya. 🙈🙉🙊 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC73…

@Ulrich1976c Something changed after 2020 and they decided that earlier OoA was not good and now it is 50kya again

@HighlyCitedX European Union: Funding through programs such as "Horizon Europe". (EU Migration is good Propaganda)

In 2018, Petraglia and Groucutt where involved in a study that concluded "The original approach to the Out of Africa theory is now obsolete. Homo sapiens left Africa over 80kya". Now they both are supporting the 50-60kya model. Why?? Max Planck. cenieh.es/en/node/1895

@Tom_Rowsell @dwarkesh_sp Europeans are Basal Eurasians mixed with ANE, WHG, EEF.

@dwarkesh_sp These people who "conquered Europe" were Europeans who originated in Europe, specifically the region of the Pontic steppe in Ukraine. Most of their DNA was from Eastern European hunter gatherers and their closest relatives today are Northern Europeans.

About 5000 years ago, horse nomads from the steppes conquered Europe. Still today, almost every European language descends from the one they spoke, and as much as 90% of European DNA comes from them. What did this conquest actually look like on the ground?

@Tom_Rowsell @dwarkesh_sp Great animation.

Don't fall for this "Yamnaya invaded Europe" semantic trick

It seems around 2017-2020 they were going to let the house of cards that is Out of Africa topple and then they changed their minds. discovermagazine.com/human-evolutio…

@Local_Origins1 I think Neanderthals specialized in the Mountain zones of Turkey, Iran, Pakistan while Sapiens specialized in the Sea coasts, Gulfs, and Rivers, so Mount Carmel is the exact point you would expect them to meet.

@Local_Origins1 Coastal Levant was always Sapiens, Neanderthals occupied the mountain areas. Mount Carmel was the meeting ground, it is a hybrid zone but mostly Sapiens. The only evidence of Neanderthals show hybrid traits like Tabun, Amud, Kebrara.

whats your general view on the role of the Levant @HighlyCitedX is it an area sapiens developed? what were the role of the neanderthals there? do you have some dates in mind I see you post on it a lot in relation to africa, interested what the conclusion is

Blinkhorn, Groucutt, Scerri, and Petraglia all questioned the 50-60ka Out of Africa timeline before 2020, and now they are debunking their own statements with this study. What changed at Max Planck? nature.com/articles/s4159…

In 2015, Groucutt, Scerri, Blinkhorn and Petraglia concluded there was "no lithic evidence for Out of Africa 60-50ka". Now, the Max Planke Institute has totally changed course and is pushing the 60-50kya migration as standard dogma. Why?? Who is writing the checks?

Dr Scerri also questioned the Out of Africa timeline in 2019, saying that Apidima means "we can no longer assume that Mousterian stone tools found across Eurasia are being produced by Neanderthals. livescience.com/65906-oldest-m…

Petraglia had previously questioned the "Out of Africa" timeline, saying "the idea that modern humans only spread out of Africa once is wrong", but then he co-authored a study dismissing his own work with the Nubian Levallois study. nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

@VectorsOfMind @NickLongrich @dwarkesh_sp Neanderthals may not have been as "advanced" as modern humans but for sure did all of these on some levels as evidenced by burials and carrying for the injured.

I don't think Neanderthals had modern human thought. I don't think even Homo Sapiens did going back 100k years, much less 300k. Neanderthals had music and there are suggestions of symbolic thought, but I really think that Homo Sapiens (with Neanderthal Admixture) evolved something special well after 300kya. How I introduce the state of affairs in the article

David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."

@ethnopoetics What "guy" are you referring to? Of course there is never "consensus" but at least Reich has the balls to call out these archaeologists/anthropologists including the Out of Africa thoerists.

I'm not sure how much anthropology this guy reads, I do understand it makes for an exciting and self-aggrandizing story

@SprayOnCopper @Phillip05166897 @Local_Origins1 Eliye Springs, LH18 and Omo 2 are skulls they say support the evolution of Homo sapiens in Africa, despite the fact they are not even close to Homo sapiens.

Jebel Irhoud, Reconstructed KNM-ES-11693 Dali Comparison @Phillip05166897 @Local_Origins1 Is clearly that Eliye Springs Clusters with Dali.

This study cited a paper they claim says the Levant "supported a tropical African savanna environment" when the source actually said "there was a strong Afro-Arabian stamp upon the fauna.. indicating savannah conditions." This is not the same as an "a Tropical African Savannah"

It is really strange they didn't consult Jeff Rose, who is the the world's foremost expert on Nubian Levallois. None of these 3 have an expertise in Nubian Levallois and yet they claim that Neanderthals were making Nubian to undermine Rose's work. shh.mpg.de/1957277/blinkh…

This study from Max Planke Institute, which is now the biggest funder of Out of Africa theory, makes the totally unfounded claim that Levantine Levallois originated in East Africa nature.com/articles/s4159…