Out of Asia theory? Modern Africans = closest to Neanderthals?

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An analysis of a new paper from China... Throws a wrench in the gears of the current paradigm and claims to reverse everything that was thought to be true. Could be radically revolutionary.

http://anthropogenesis.kinshipstudies.org/2017/01/world-science-en-route-from-out-of-africa-to-out-of-america-first-stop-is-out-of-asia/

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In addition, the MGD theory questions the reliability of ancestral vs. derived state assignment because of the increased probability of homoplasies in mutationally saturated genomes. But, intriguingly, Yuan et al. (2017) found modern Africans to be generally closer to Neanderthals and, especially, Denisovans (both Africa-derived) than non-Africans (see below Fig. 4A).

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The difference between the two phylogenies involves two major changes. First, the divergent African hgs A and B are now subsumed under one single clade ABCDE of both-African and non-African distribution. They found increased allele sharing between ABCDE clade and Neanderthal Y chromosomes (see below).

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This sharing is especially pronounced for the African-specific hgs A0, A1a and B.