That Wiki article is a bit dated.
There's some really weird DNA out there, albeit at low frequencies.
There's some really weird DNA out there, albeit at low frequencies.
While the Y DNA has been pushed back *very* slightly, the Neanderthal divergence was much earlier (and Denisovan earlier than that)
Neanderthal is pretty well accepted at 400 kya, but do we have a credible date for the divergence of Denisovans?
I've seen varying numbers. Published in science (paywalled) ~700kya for Y chromosome divergence
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abb6460
Preprint
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.983445v1.full
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abb6460
Preprint
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.983445v1.full
Just read https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4135414/, looks like you're right, I think it was Mendez et al's paper I was remembering, and it looks like it was very close to outright fraud...
It's unfortunately all too common
There are Y-chromosomes from West Africa who's last common ancestor diverged from Homo Sapiens 500 kya, before even the Neanderthals did.
When elite nitwits hear "diversity" and immediately think "Africa!", there is at least one sense in which they're not wrong :p