>>41741147The "out of Africa" theory will likely always be contested in some way or another, and not because of something as nebulas as combating virtue signalling. Debate and discourse are just parts of science. The reality is we know shockingly little about our own past. One or two findings can, and have, blown previous iterations of mainstream understanding totally apart.
The most encompassing theory I've heard is that the primary progenitor to the modern human stems from a wide geographical band that runs from as far North as Ukraine, and as far south as Sub-Saharan Africa. But this is dependent upon when, where, and how you mark the prime progenitor - basically marking the delineation between chimp and (not)chimp.
It's also important to understand that those we might consider early humans also co-existed with other groups. For example, Europeans are some of the only people on the planet to share a notable portion of DNA with Neanderthals, and Neanderthals aren't "human" in the strictest sense.
