Afro-Asiatic Origins?

[Troyfan]

Originally Posted by CrazyDonkey

You're talking about two whole continents.

Homo-Sapiens evolved about 200,000 years ago and are believed to have migrated out of Africa about 100,000 years ago.

As to the debate over the roots of Egyptian Civilization, see www.city-data.com/forum/history/2625764-did-nubia-develop-before-egypt.html.

Now they say humans moved out of Africa 185,000 years ago.

Modern humans left Africa much earlier - BBC News

"New dating of fossils from Israel indicates that our species (Homo sapiens) lived outside Africa around 185,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than the previous evidence."

I don't know what this means for anthropology, etc. Doubling the time modern humans lived outside Africa must mean something though. I wonder if this is the basis for the Eden legend, early humans' explanation for how and where they originated.

[CrazyDonkey]

From the same article (my emphasis):

However, the early excursions into Eurasia by African Homo sapiens represented at Misliya are generally thought to have ended in extinction. Findings from genetics and archaeology suggest that present-day people living outside Africa trace their ancestry to an exodus just 60,000 years ago. Most DNA studies have failed to find evidence of these older migrations in our genes.

That the dates for the emergence of modern humans should be pushed back is not terribly surprising. They sort of leaped into the evolutionary record already fully formed.

[CrazyDonkey]

See: https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.geni...s_original.jpg

E3b1/E3b2 (North African) is distinct from J1 (Semitic)/J2 (Mesopotamian/Anatolian).

E3b1 = E1b1b1 = Ancient Egyptians? The J1 in Egypt on the map is the Muslim Arabs, with maybe a trace of the Hyksos.

North African (E3b = E1b1b), Semitic/Mesopotamian (J1/J2), and Proto-Indo-European (R1a) are all separate language/cultural traditions, but which could trace back to an earlier "ur" parent language. The CR Haplogroup or M168 ("Out of Africa" Mutation c. 68k bp) is the parent haplogroup of E, J, and R.

https://www.visionlearning.com/img/l...mage_11355.jpg

https://hauridna.com/haplogroups/human-history/