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Daily Data Dump - Monday

Discover the truth behind the 'We Are All Africans' t-shirt and the complexities of the Out of Africa model.

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Richard Dawkins publicized the "We Are All Africans" t-shirt on Bill Maher's show, which resulted in a major backlog of orders. The shirt is factually true. But the "Out of Africa" model is not as clean or simple as it would have been 10 years ago. Ironically Dawkins himself tipped his hand as to the complexity of his own thinking in The Ancestor's Tale by promoting Alan Templeton's "Out of Africa again and again" hypothesis. Dawkins in the past has shown a keen skepticism of deriving ought from is, so I'm a touch confused by this current tack, though the maxim on the t-shirt is quite fashionable in our age.

Deep ancestors of human DNA compatible with structured African population. Dienekes reviews a paper which came out [confused it with another paper, no, this just came out] I'll have to look. There have been models like this ...

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