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Shi Huang 黄石
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Shi Huang 黄石
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Genetic equidistance has only two possible explanations: the strict molecular clock +neutral theory, or MGD theory. With SMC+NT falsified, MGD stands confirmed!
The final blow to the Out of Africa theory has just been published. The Yunxian skull, dated to 1 million years ago, is more modern than H. erectus and is likely on the lineage leading to modern humans. 1/n cnki.net/KCMS/detail/de…
- That African DNA is the closest to chimpanzees is an open secret among a small circle of experts. No one (dare) discusses its significance, so it is unknown to most. There are many papers on this. The one with the most complete data is (Extended Fig 5).
- Ancient DNA of over 40000 year old from Europe and East Asia has effectively and completely killed off the Out of Africa hypothesis. There is simply no way for it to be salvaged!
- Replying to @shi_huang5Closer DNA similarity to chimp means closer in traits (already shown by many studies). The one most distant to chimps should be the first to become modern humans. Such simple logic and data can immediately and automatically solve the riddle of where modern humans originated from.
- Ancient DNA research has already established that the cognitive-related genetic profile of Europeans has undergone progressive evolution over the past several tens of thousands of years. Clearly, the rate of this progressive evolution could not have been synchronized across
- Replying to @shi_huang5Someone must openly discuss this open secret because otherwise, the truth of human origins will be buried in pseudoscientific lies. Scientific truth regarding matters of this magnitude always takes priority over anything else.
- Ancient DNA from the oldest modern humans found in Europe, which was published this week, again showed closer similarity to Asians rather than Africans, confirming the pattern first noted in 2015 for the Siberian Ust-Ishim. Out of Africa has been repeatedly disproven by aDNA!Modern humans of 45 ky old in Europe were supposed to be just coming out of Africa and should be mostly Africans in terms of DNA. But they should be closer to East Asians in DNA if the Out of East Asia theory is true. Data show they were closer to East Asians than to Africans.
- Replying to @shi_huang5The lead author, Prof. Qiang Ji, has proposed an Out of East Asia theory based on his fossil findings. Similar findings were reported earlier this year by a team that included Prof. Chris Stringer, a leading proponent of the out of Africa theory.
- Today’s Nature reports a study on the heritability of 34 human traits, showing that educational attainment and fluid intelligence (innate cognitive ability) have higher heritability than most other traits.
- Papuans are often described as “modern humans with Denisovan admixture,” but the genomic data suggest something deeper — direct Denisovan ancestry. Unlike Eurasians, who show no population-specific Neanderthal CNVs, Papuans carry multiple Denisovan-shared CNVs at remarkably highPapuan Ancestry: Denisovans + Introgressed Modern Humans Recent genomics (ASHG2025 meeting abstract) reveals that Papuans carry functional archaic (likely Denisovan) centromeres — highly unusual, since centromeres rarely introgress between species. Key insights: Centromere
- “DNA predicted faces of archaic humans differ more from those of Europeans than from Africans.” We were the first to say that Denisovans were Africans!
- Africans have the highest genetic diversity among races, which is commonly interpretated as a more evolved feature (longer evo time). But the truth is the exact opposite. Human is the most complex among species and has the lowest GD. A thread on low GD and complexity/order.🧵
