Response to Kevin Drum's article about race and IQ

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[–]Girondin 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wikipedia links a study that came out a month after this mother jones piece that found modern humans in southern Greece 210,000 years ago. That claim that modern humans "came to europe 40,000 years ago" need correction in that it represents a major wave, you would think were no modern humans in Europe prior to 40,000 years ago or out of Africa prior to 65,000 years ago which I used to think was the case.

[–]GConly 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nice find. Although morphology is a bit imprecise, I remember one very old set of north African remains that were bickered over for decades. Neanderthal, AMH, third party.. lots of ground for debate. Too old to recover DNA from this lot though.

Jebel Irhoud, IIRC.

That claim that modern humans "came to europe 40,000 years ago" need correction in that it represents a major wave

It was the wave that took out the Neanderthals.

People have to remember they were human too. We interbred with them, we have a lot of thier genes for colouring and environmentally relevant genes too. We would have interacted and traded with them.

It's entirely possible the site in the article shared traits because we were "mingling" across the Med area with them. More gene flow than a population movement.