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>>158022822>>158020110 #>Second paragraph clearly says>suggests, but does not necessitateThey suggest a Eurasian origin because the derived MCPH1 allele is almost non-existant in sub-Saharan Africans. Neanderthals, who split from humans 765Kya, also had the ancestral MCPH1 allele;
>http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010648If non-Africans have neanderthal DNA and Africans don't, and humans and neanderthals split 765Kya, and both neanderthals and sub-Saharan Africans have the ancestral MCPH1 allele, then the population ancestral to non-neanderthals and non-sub-Saharan Africans had to split from both over 765Kya.
Since the date of the emergence of the derived MCPH1 allele and the other introgressions into Africans are 1.1Mya+ years old, this means that the population ancestral to whites and Asians had to emerge over 1.1Mya.
