Don't believe everything you read on bioarxiv

I love arxiv, and I like bioarxiv. Let's put it that way.

If you see astrophysics on arxiv, it's pretty much either going to end up in a peer reviewed journal or else its ideas are going to end up there. Bioarxiv is another animal, as it were. In that light, uh... here: Tingting Sun, Qing Liu, Meiqi Shang, Kejian Wang. Eve was 400000 BC not 200000, and Adam was THREE MILLION years BC not, like, 70000.

At that level, we have Neanderettes walking among us and, from the XY side, Homo Erectus.

Up to now, most palaeos have been talking about fits and starts of modern humans getting out to the Near East or maybe Spain and then hustling themselves back to Africa. There's some human introjection into Neanders, enough to alter their [womens'] mtDNA; not such as to donate said mtDNA to us lot.

Allow me to call Shenanigans.