Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
The Out of Africa hypothesis is the most well-supported model of human population migration among biologists, but it clashes with a literal reading of the book of Genesis. In this video, I review the Out of Africa hypothesis and pit it against Rob Carter, Stephen Lee, and John Sanford's 2018 paper that proposes an "Out of Babel". I use simulations and empirically reconstruct the human mtDNA phylogeny to show you how Carter and friends are misinterpreting their phylogenies, and how ultimately the human data matches perfectly with simulations assuming a population bottleneck in the Out of Africa groups.
PS: I'm struggling with a bit of the sniffles, so my voice here is weird. You know me by now, you get what you paid for.
The Out of Africa hypothesis is the most well-supported model of human population migration among biologists, but it clashes with a literal reading of the book of Genesis. In this video, I review the Out of Africa hypothesis and pit it against Rob Carter, Stephen Lee, and John Sanford's 2018 paper that proposes an "Out of Babel". I use simulations and empirically reconstruct the human mtDNA phylogeny to show you how Carter and friends are misinterpreting their phylogenies, and how ultimately the human data matches perfectly with simulations assuming a population bottleneck in the Out of Africa groups.
PS: I'm struggling with a bit of the sniffles, so my voice here is weird. You know me by now, you get what you paid for.
