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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-genetic-reveals-hidden-chapter-human.html

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two
ancestral populations that drifted apart and later
reconnected, long before modern humans spread across
the globe.

Using advanced analysis based on full genome sequences,
researchers from the University of Cambridge have found
evidence that modern humans are the result of a genetic
mixing event between two ancient populations that diverged
around 1.5 million years ago. About 300,000 years ago,
these groups came back together, with one group
contributing 80% of the genetic makeup of modern humans
and the other contributing 20%.

. . .

Any NAZIs who talk about "pure lineage" are full of it.
We're hybrids of hybrids of hybrids over a vast span
of time.

There IS NO SUCH THING as a "standard human" really.
Even now there are genetic/geographic variances.
The hybridization process is not complete.

The article suggests that heidelbergensis and erectus
were the "other humans" ... and contributed about 20%
of the modern genome. The rest, after a near-extinction
bottleneck, multiplied and are the other 80%. Then
the hybridization with Neanderthals for some of us.

No "family tree" with, of course, Britons at the
very top - more a tangled "bush".

Heidelbergensis is interesting ... rather large and
with somewhat larger brains that we now have. They
persisted for quite awhile in Europe, though not
in huge numbers. MIGHT have been even smarter than
current "humans" - but don't judge by "tech" ...
that clearly takes a LONG time to develop. Only
SEEMS "obvious" to us now ......

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