Scientists Say They’ve Discovered Ancestral Home of All Human Beings
26th April 2024
A pretty big claim.
The team shared their findings after studying DNA, but other researchers have cast doubts.
Oh, yes, we have doubts.
Professor Vanessa Hayes, a geneticist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, and her team analysed 1,217 samples of mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down from mother to child.
The DNA came from people living in southern Africa, with Hayes noting that ‘we have known for a long time that modern humans originated in Africa and roughly 200,000 years ago’.
‘Known’? No. We’ve supposed that modern humans originated in Africa, and the evidence we have certainly points that way, but only ‘journalists’ assert that we ‘know’ something like that.