Translation An informative review critical of the ~60kya coastal-Out-of-Africa hypothesis. On the left, the authors’ estimate of the distribution of hominin groups during MIS5. From the paper: Another under-appreciated issue is the anomalous nature of the genetic evidence for a rapid spread of modern humans from Africa to Asia. Echoing the fossil date anomaly, the mtDNA branch lengths for sampled populations are longest for those which are farthest east, in Near Oceania, and shortest in the Asian areas that would have been encountered first (Merriwether et al., 2005; Oppenheimer, 2009). The real problem, however, is that the variation in branch …
