re: #176 freetoken

The results show that early modern humans present in the Beijing area 40,000 y ago were related to the ancestors of many present-day Asians as well as Native Americans. However, they had already diverged from the ancestors of present-day Europeans.

That Europeans and East Asians had diverged by 40,000 y ago is consistent with dates for the first archaeological appearance of modern humans in Europe

iirc, there were three species of humans living in africa and eurasia at that date: homo sapiens sapiens, homo sapiens neanderthalensis, and homo erectus