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Africa and the Many Cradles of Humanity

Tides of History

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Genetic Evidence for the Evolution of the Human Family

Genome of young boy who lived in balito bay in south africa about two thousand years ago paints a different picture. According to his genes, rather than two thousand years that deepest split in the human family happened more like 260 thousand years ago. There were archaic homo sapians at jebeli, hod omokibish an ethiopia, and florispat in South Africa. This all seems to support the idea of a diverse ancestry all across africa for homo sapiens.

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