Human Evolution Revised: Timelines and Multiregionalism

Update: 2018-12-19

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The past ten years... even the past five years... even the past two and a half years have totally rewritten a lot of the story of human prehistory. In this episode we review a large lump of scientific papers, few having made it into popular culture or general knowledge so far, but all painting a picture of human prehistory that is much deeper and longer than the old theorists behind recent Out-of-Africa migration theories.

We talk about human settlements in unexpected places and unexpected times, hidden genetic lineages and Neanderthal seafaring, language and construction. Too often do the "Well, actually!" crowd focus on listening to partial evidence instead of using their head, and we see how this has harmed the theories in the field of paleo-history. Soon, we'll move the microscope closer to home and talk about what early humans might've been up to all that time...

Readings and Links

Note that pay-walled academic articles may be obtained by feeding their URLs to sites like Sci-Hub.

Smith et al. 2018. Humans trived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago. Nature 555.7697. Pages 511-515.
Richter et al. 2017. The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age. Nature 546.7657. Pages 293-29.
Schlebusch et al. 2017. South African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence 350,000 to 260,000 years ago. Science 358.6363. Pages 652-655.
Hodgson et a. 2014. Early Back-to-Africa Migration into the Horn of Africa. PLOS ONE 10.6.
Groucutt et al. 2018. Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2.5. Pages 800-809.
Demeter et al. 2015. Early Modern Humans and Morphological Variation in Southeast Asia: Fossil Evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos. PLOS ONE 10.4.
Westaway et al. 2017. An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000-63,000 years ago. Nature 548.7667. Pages 322-325.
Pringle, Heather. 2011. Texas Site Confirms Pre-Clovis Settlement of the Americas. Science, New Series 331.6024. Page 1512.
Raghavan et al. 2015. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans. Nature 505.7481. Pages 87-91.
Skoglund et al. 2015. Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas. Nature.
Ferentinos et al. 2012. Early seafaring activity in the southern Ionian Islands, Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Archaeological Science 39. 2167-2176.
Jaubert et al. 2016. Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France. Nature 111.534. 111-114.
Coop et al. 2008. The Timing of Selection at the Human FOXP2 Gene. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25.7. Pages 1257-1259.

Timecodes

00:00 	Introduction
02:14 	The Old Story of Human Evolution (Recent East African Origin)
05:55 	Philosophical Problems, bias and Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence! Muh evidence-based worldview.
08:58 	Uniparental markers: mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal DNA and Haplogroups
12:32 	Genghis Khan as the last man on earth. What if he had weak genes?
15:22 	Muh Toba erruption is Fake News
16:48 	The appeal of out of Africa
19:00 	New archeological finds in the old strawman hypothesis
20:56 	Genetic analysis of Bushmen
23:18 	Early Humans in Arabia and Southeast Asia
25:25 	Destruction of Evidence and the Lost Land of Sundaland
27:50 	The Settlement of America and Preclovis cultures
33:57 	Donations and Livestreams
35:05 	Not the only humans
36:00 	What are Neanderthals?
37:25 	NEANDERTHALED.com
38:25 	Denisovans
39:25 	Were Neanderthals actually dumb grugs? (Seafaring)
42:27 	Neanderthal cave constructions
45:49 	Could Neanderthals and other speak? FOXP2
48:27 	The General View of Multiregionalism and the scale of history
52:26 	Morphological clades between old human varieties and modern races
55:30 	The Red-Pill on Asian people
56:16 	Conclusion and "Wuz we Hyperboreans?" teaser