Quackademics disingenuously lump highly divergent populations into one "African" category just to gloat about "African diversity."

Of course these populations are "diverse" if they separated 100,000 to 300,000 years ago. Homo sapiens diverged from Neanderthals 500,000 years ago and they're classified as distinct species!

Speciation is not tied to a specific timescale, but it's still sophistic to describe Eurasians as a "subset of Africans" (which they do, continually) when "Africans" are comprised of populations that had diverged into clearly distinct subsets long before the Out of Africa expansion.

Side note: Genetic research is proving that human origins are far more complex than previously understood. See, for example, David Reich's new paper on early Homo sapiens and Neanderthal interactions. The old Out of Africa model is not completely debunked, but it will be revised.

Map source:
African genomes are not a subset (2026)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168952526002155