{"id":57722,"date":"2011-12-20T15:13:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=14897"},"modified":"2011-12-20T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:13:12","slug":"out-of-africa-to-out-of-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/20\/out-of-africa-to-out-of-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Africa to Out of Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/12\/black-t-shirt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/12\/black-t-shirt.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"black-t-shirt\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14898\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/dienekes.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/2012-looking-good-for-my-predictions.html\">Dienekes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/westhunt.wordpress.com\/\">Greg Cochran<\/a> have been talking about this possibility for a few years. But a combination of archaeological finds and the current unsettled nature of the human evolutionary genomics literature means that &#8220;Out of Arabia&#8221; is a real possibility (not laugh-out-loud crazy and weird). So I took the liberty of cooking up a new design for the <a href=\"http:\/\/store.richarddawkins.net\/products\/we-are-all-africans\">RichardDawkins.net<\/a> website. Science is about updating our prior assumptions, so it shouldn&#8217;t be too much of an issue. What I wonder: <b>how would the population of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia feel about replacing Ethiopia and Kenya in human evolution documentaries?<\/b> <b>Addendum:<\/b> To be clear, this isn&#8217;t to say I accept &#8220;Out of Arabia&#8221; for the origin of most modern humans, including within Africa. Rather, I think it&#8217;s not a crazy idea anymore, especially in light of the weird results which imply that West Africans may be genetically closer to non-Africans than to Pygmies and San (and it would make more sense of older uniparental results which imply back-migration from Eurasia into Africa).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/A7C5ARMqbbA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dienekes and Greg Cochran have been talking about this possibility for a few years. But a combination of archaeological finds and the current unsettled nature of the human evolutionary genomics literature means that &#8220;Out of Arabia&#8221; is a real possibility (not laugh-out-loud crazy and weird). So I took the liberty of cooking up a new [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-human-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57722","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=57722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58278,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57722\/revisions\/58278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}