Power77
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Today I've come across this intriguing website written by Russian anthropologist German Dziebel: http://anthropogenesis.kinshipstudies.org/sample-page/. As you can read on his blog , he seems to advocate a New World origin of modern humans instead of an African one. In other words, he theorizes Amerindians as being the basal/ancestral Homo sapiens sapiens population to all modern humans alive today instead of Sub-Saharan Africans(and particularly Khoisan-speaking populations often viewed by geneticists and out-of-Africanists as being the oldest humans alive). He seems to rely mostly on Amerindian linguistic diversity, kinship patterns and Paleolithic-like genetic diversity to support his case. While he certainly has some good points and seems very erudite, we can safely say that his theory sounds far-fetched but then again so does recent out-of-Africa if you ask me! What do you think about his theory? Wouldn't it be a good idea to invite him discuss and explain his theory on this forum(he did so on forumbiodiversity by the way)? Share.