Do modern European humans descend from modern Africans? The answer is no, we don’t. A research from 2016 long debunked the Out-of-Africa theory. It’s time we embrace the multi-regional hypothesis again. There is no, and never has been, any “one human race”. We are different species.
Published in 2016, a large number of geneticists and researchers from around the world concluded that “Early modern human dispersals contributed little to non-Africans”. Or in plain English: Europeans and Asians simply don’t descend from Africans. The out of Africa theory ahs long been debunked, but we have to continue believing it for political reasons.
Shocker: Of all ethnic human groups, the research found that modern black Africans are most genetically related to chimpanzees. Non-Africans have the most genetic mutations that differ from chimpanzees. It suggests that modern humans did not evolve in Africa, but outside of Africa, namely in Eurasia.
The Research
The research I’m citing is titled The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations and was published in Nature under doi:10.1038/nature18964. Let me summarize the research for your in easy bullet points.
“The rate of accumulation of mutations has accelerated by about 5% in non-Africans compared to Africans since divergence.” It means Europeans and Asians have been evolving 5% faster since separating our African cousins.
“We show that the ancestors of some pairs of present-day human populations were substantially separated by 100,000 years ago, well before the archaeologically attested onset of behavioural modernity.” Europeans and Asians separated from their African cousins before the onset of behaviorally modern humans.
Black Australians (Aborigines), and so forth, do not descend from Africans either. They’re unrelated.
Europeans’ ancestors separated from the black Africans about 200,000 years ago (before modern humans arrived). “We infer that the population ancestral to all present day humans began to develop substructure at least 200 thousand years ago …”
“Early modern human dispersals contributed little to non-Africans[.]” This is because “early migrations could have occurred but [did[ not [contribute] substantially to present-day populations.”
The conclusions is Europeans aren’t related to modern Africans, we don’t descend from Africans, and modern humans didn’t evolve in Africa. The Out-of-Africa theory is a total lie.
Great piece, you should check out Robert Sepehr, he’s the best non-woke anthropologist