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Why can populations be modeled exactly on older populations? Even if a population stayed genetically isolated, it wouldn’t look the same as it did in the past. I don’t imagine all Eurasian humans (without African admixture) can be modeled as 100% “the first migrants out of Africa.” Is it just...

I made a post last week about the Semitic languages where I basically took it as a given that Natufians originated the Afroasiatic languages. I gather that this is the consensus on genetics forums, and for good reason in my opinion (Natufians and non-Semitic Afroasiatics carry E, Afroasiatics...

The origin of the Afroasiatic languages is almost a settled question, with the most likely location being in the Levant with the Natufians due to the high degree of presence of haplogroup E among almost all Afroasiatic populations except in the Middle East, and high proportions of Natufian-like...