Birdwatch Note
2024-07-22 16:35:02 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING
DNA ancestry tests categorise only recent ancestry, they do not need to say "distant ancestors came from Africa", that is not the point of the test. Modern humans evolved in Africa, DNA has confirmed that, therefore our DNA does indeed show that we *all* have African ancestry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans#:~:text=genetic%20evidence%20suggests%20that%20a,60%2C000%20and%2050%2C000%20years%20ago.
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- DNA ancestry tests categorise only recent ancestry, they do not need to say "distant ancestors came from Africa", that is not the point of the test. Modern humans evolved in Africa, DNA has confirmed that, therefore our DNA does indeed show that we *all* have African ancestry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans#:~:text=genetic%20evidence%20suggests%20that%20a,60%2C000%20and%2050%2C000%20years%20ago.