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).

RT @MengHu13: Salter (2002) once calculated the kinship gain obtained by choosing endogamy versus exogamy. For instance, an African marryin…

Another paper debunks the sensational claim in Science (2023) about a near-extinction event for the human lineage 1 million years ago, revealing it as a methodological artifact. The neutral theory framework has already derailed countless careers.

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe. Source:

"We knew from the very beginning that something was seriously wrong with commonly received notions of human history of the kind that you'll find in popular science books by Harari, Pinker, Fukuyama, Diamond, etc."

Given that the genetic conclusions are based on the flawed premise, the neutral DNA assumption, I am open to alternative hypotheses based on non-genetic data. The hybrid hypothesis is worth looking into.

RT @davidwengrow: Another day, another Harvard genetics paper on the whereabouts of an (I really must stress this) purely *imaginary “Indo-…

RT @WhileTravelling: I share facts from China as a foreigner living in Shanghai for more than a decade. But some people can’t handle the tr…

RT @jk_rowling: This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous. Gender ideol…

RT @ProfCarlSagan: "The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may be contradict deep…

RT @DragonsofWales: Reposting my A.africanus illustration to mark the 100th anniversary.

New find: P. knowlesi (endemic in monkey) genes are more mutable than P. falciparum (human). Known: Genetic diversity of P. falciparum is very low. MGD theory: more complex host are less tolerant of mutations, which also applies to their parasites.

Random DNA differing in GC content introduced into yeast either mingle with yeast chromosomes or segregate into an inactive compartment, which is predicted by the underlying DNA sequence. If most DNA are neutral as assumed by OOA, this would be impossible.

@ItalkiMan Neandertals and Denisovans have more ancestral (chimp) alleles than modern humans. Africans have more ancestral alleles than non-Africans. So, Africans share more ancestral alleles with Neandertals and Denisovans than non-Africans do.

RT @Q_StatGen: Beyond excited to share this new paper with all of you . It's the most fun we've ever had. We figured out how to study a lat…

@brude_mckee We have published the model in 2017 and have since published several papers to use independent data to test the model. The latest

@brude_mckee Some years ago, I offered to visit his lab and give a talk on my work. He asked me to send an abstract but then he never invited me. He is not willing to admit that the neutral assumption is dead wrong. To be confused is to be expected given the wrong assumption.

Updated the preprint, showing that variant sharing due to convergent mutations is very common in Y chr. The revision only analyzed the variants located within the male-specific region as unveiled through the full sequencing of 43 human Y chr.

Amounts to saying nothing. Every one understands that it’s the very top that is the most determined by inborn talents.

Anything unusual with the big head?😄 --The brain behind the popular methods in ancient DNA and molecular anthropology. These methods are rooted in the failed neutral theory.