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by csee 1647 days ago
You're misrepresenting him, and it sounds like you have an ideological stake in this.

> Africans do have Neanderthal DNA, up to 0.3%.

He never claimed or hinted that Africans do not have Neanderthal DNA.

He says "non-African modern humans were discernibly more similar to the Neanderthal sample than Africans were", which is factually accurate, given that there's about a 1.5-2.5% gap in the amount of DNA that's shared, at least according to best current knowledge.

> The post tries very hard to make it look like 'Out of Africa' is wrong

No such thing is insinuated.

He makes it explicit that he's talking about the "total-replacement plank of the old out-of-Africa model", and he spends a while talking about how we're all descended from a single male and single female within Africa, it's only the case that certain populations outside of Africa mixed with other hominids and got up to 5-7% of their DNA from them (Neanderthals and Denisovans), which is far more than what Africans have.

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There was a Eurasian introgression back into Africa from either the Arabian Peninsula or (less likely) across the Sahara into Chadic ethnic groups visible in Y-DNA haplogroups. Most likely that's the source of the 0.3%