Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Erectus amongst both of us

So we don't get it all twisted, let's revisit Erectus Walks Amongst Us. This got famous in alt-right circles in the late 2000s... until the Neander and Denisovan genomes got decoded, which couldn't find much Erectus in African populations. Instead a Super Archaic genome was wandering among the Eurasians.

We had some hints of super-archaism in Africa as well, but a lot of that got put down to twists of two African populations intertwining at home before and after all those parahumans got loose in Eurasia.

So, on 4 April we got Alan R. Rogers, Md Touhidul Islam, Colin M. Brand, and Timothy H. Webster: "Human Ancestors Interbred with Two Distinct Populations of Distant Relatives". This brings the Super Archaic back into Africa. However they remain less super than that which bred into the ancient Eurasian parahumans.

BACKDATE 4/17

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