The Origin of West Africans

Like all peoples, West Africans descend from multiple populations who crossed paths in the past and subsequently exchanged genes. Herein is presented a hypothesis regarding the identities of the populations from whom West Africans descend, as well as the type of humans that these populations were.

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00:00:00 Channel Logo

00:00:05 Anthropological Terms

00:01:39 Archaic or Modern Ancestry?

00:03:47 Ancestry Revealed

00:06:26 Source of the Ancestry?

00:09:06 Paternal Haplogroup A00

00:09:57 Basal Modern Human Analysis

00:12:16 Two Populations of Basal Modern Humans

00:16:00 A00 May Be From North Africa

00:16:39 West Africans & Bantus Are from North Africa

00:19:10 The birth of West Africans & Bantus

00:21:11 The Source Population of West Africans' Admixture Revealed

00:26:53 Outro & Gratitude To Viewers