After 7 years of hard work, our paper on rewriting human evolution has finally been finished and made public. We must congratulate ourselves, absolutely brilliant!
Modern human
origins: multiregional evolution of autosomes and East Asia origin of Y and
mtDNA
Dejian Yuan,
Xiaoyun Lei, Yuanyuan Gui, Zuobin Zhu, Dapeng Wang, Jun Yu, Shi Huang
bioRxiv 101410; doi:
https://doi.org/10.1101/101410
Abstract
Recent studies have established that genetic diversities are mostly maintained by selection, therefore rendering the present molecular model of
human origins untenable. Using improved methods and public data, we have revisited human evolution and derived an age of 1.91-1.96 million years for the first split in modern
human autosomes. We found
evidence of modern Y and mtDNA originating in East Asia and dispersing via
hybridization with archaic humans. Neanderthals and Denisovans were archaic Africans with Eurasian admixtures and ancestors of South
Asia Negritos and Aboriginal Australians. Verifying our model, we found more ancestry of Southern Chinese from
Hunan in Africans relative to other East Asian groups examined. These results suggest
multiregional evolution of autosomes and East Asia origin of Y and mtDNA,
thereby leading to a coherent account of modern
human origins.
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