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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
Do we?? If your argument is because of "Lucy" because she was the oldest human remains discovered you would be wrong. Last year in Spain they discovered a 400 000 year old remains with DNA links of Serbians.
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I think it's pretty well settled that all the strains of the human race came from Africa at one time.
I'm about as white as it comes but according to my DNA my maternal ancestors came out of East Africa around 67,000 years ago. My male ancestors originated in Africa about 75,000 years ago. My DNA is most in common with those people from the British Isles.
If you're referring to non Africans Neanderthal and Denisovans ancestry which comprises about 2% of each even these came from Africa.
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Between 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, an ancestral group of H. heidelbergensis left Africa and then split shortly after. One branch ventured northwestward into West Asia and Europe and became the Neanderthals. The other branch moved east, becoming Denisovans. By 130,000 years ago H. heidelbergensis in Africa had become Homo sapiens. Our modern human ancestors did not begin their own exodus from Africa until about 60,000 years ago, when they expanded into Eurasia and encountered their ancient cousins.
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No link as you need to sign in to the National Geographic Genographic Project.
