{"id":38452,"date":"2011-03-08T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=10231"},"modified":"2011-03-08T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T21:30:26","slug":"where-in-the-world-did-anatomically-modern-humans-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/08\/where-in-the-world-did-anatomically-modern-humans-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where in the world did anatomically modern humans come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\/public\/citation_icons\/rb2_large_gray.png\" alt=\"ResearchBlogging.org\" \/><\/a><em><strong>The Pith:<\/strong> I review a recent paper which argues for a southern African origin of modern humanity. I argue that the statistical inference shouldn&#8217;t be trusted as the final word. This paper reinforces previously known facts, but does not add much that <strong>both<\/strong> novel and robust.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have now read the paper which I expressed a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/03\/out-of-south-africa\/\">touch of skepticism toward yesterday<\/a>. Do note, I did not dispute the validity of their results. They seem eminently plausible. I was simply skeptical that we could, with any level of robustness, claim that anatomically modern humans arose in southern vs. eastern, or western, Africa. If I had to bet, my rank order would be southern ~ eastern &gt; western. But my confidence in my assessment is very low.<\/p>\n<p>First things first. You should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2011\/03\/01\/1017511108.abstract\">read the whole paper<\/a>, since someone paid for it to be open access. Second, much props to whoever decided to put their original SNP data <a href=\"http:\/\/www-evo.stanford.edu\/repository\/paper0002\/\">online<\/a>. I&#8217;ve already pulled it down, and sent off emails to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harappadna.org\/\">Zack<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bga101.blogspot.com\/\">David<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/dodecad.blogspot.com\/\">Dienekes<\/a>. There are some northern African populations which allow us to expand beyond the Mozabites, though unfortunately there are only 55,000 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pith: I review a recent paper which argues for a southern African origin of modern humanity. I argue that the statistical inference shouldn&#8217;t be trusted as the final word. This paper reinforces previously known facts, but does not add much th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,1171,7,4,82,30,713,481,1172,1173,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-genetics","category-bushmen-genetics","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-human-evolution","category-human-evolutionary-genetics","category-human-genetics","category-human-origins","category-out-of-south-africa","category-out-of-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38452"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38813,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38452\/revisions\/38813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}