marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

humans evolved from two populations

March 21, 2025

source: www.nature.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

Speculative claims that humans might have evolved from two ancient ancestral populations that:

first diverged from each other around 1.5 million years ago and later merged back together 300,000 years ago, initiating a genetic mixing event that culminated with the birth of modern humans.

Here’s a more accessible journalism piece on the paper.

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