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Human origins in southern african Palaeo-wetlands?: strong claims from weak evidence

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Groucutt,  Huw S.
Max Planck Research Group Extreme Events, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;
Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Scerri,  Eleanor M. L.
Lise Meitner Pan-African Evolution Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Schlebusch, C. M., Loog, L., Groucutt, H. S., King, T., Rutherford, A., Barbieri, C., et al. (2021). Human origins in southern african Palaeo-wetlands?: strong claims from weak evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science, 130: 105374, pp. 1-4. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2021.105374.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-3CCF-0
Abstract
Chan and colleagues in their paper titled “Human origins in a southern African palaeo-wetland and first migrations” (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1714-1) report 198 novel whole mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences and infer that ‘anatomically modern humans’ originated in the Makgadikgadi–Okavango palaeo-wetland of southern Africa around 200 thousand years ago. This claim relies on weakly informative data. In addition to flawed logic and questionable assumptions, the authors surprisingly disregard recent evidence and debate on human origins in Africa. As a result, the emphatic and high profile conclusions of the paper are unjustified.