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Revolutionary hypothesis from David Reich, one of the great scientists of our age: modern humans and Neanderthals may descend from the same ancestral population, originating possibly in the Middle East rather than deep inside Africa. Complicates the “out of Africa theory”

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711219v2
bioRxiv Hypothesis: A modern human range expansion ~300,000 years ago had a critical role in Neandertal origins This paper proposes that a critical event in Neandertal evolution was a range expansion of early modern humans into Europe 300 thousand years ago (ka). As bands of early modern humans spread, they incorporated resident archaic people leading ultimately to…
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