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		growlist on Oct 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Humans are more closely related than we commonly t... > Humans left Africa and began dispersing throughout the world at least 120,000 years ago Haven't recent discoveries undermined this theory?

rsynnott on Oct 6, 2020 [–]

No. There's some evidence that Homo sapiens, after distributing itself, had some degree of regional admixture from archaic hominids, which may be what you're thinking of.

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