Radical Anthropology<p>New <a href="https://c.im/tags/genomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>genomics</span></a> study finds that the ancestors of modern humans lived in multiple populations during the period when <a href="https://c.im/tags/Homosapiens" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Homosapiens</span></a> evolved in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Africa</span></a>. </p><p>Aylwyn <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scally" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Scally</span></a> says: 'Regarding how these populations might have remained separate for a million years or more, it's worth bearing in mind the following: </p><p>Firstly, our results don't necessarily imply complete separation it's quite possible that intermittent or even ongoing gene flow at low levels would manifest as detectable population structure under our model. </p><p>Secondly, Africa is a big place, and we already have examples of hominoid populations that have remained separate for comparable timescales namely the various species and subspecies of chimpanzees bonobos, and gorillas. All are found within the central equatorial region of Africa and yet are quite genetically distinct. Therefore we should not perhaps be too surprised if structure within Homo was maintained for as long.'</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02117-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41588-025</span><span class="invisible">-02117-1</span></a></p>