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I wonder what they mixed with then? Some baboon?

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Yes actually, sub Saharan Africans bred with an unknown, extinct hominid race, that takes them closer to apes than the rest of man.

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Might have been a distant cousin to the gorilla? Who knows?

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They didn't. Some believe that after the end of the last ice age a wall of ice separated Africa from the rest of the world, and they were left to evolve by themselves.

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Africans have up to 10% archaic DNA from yet undiscovered hominin in their ancestral lineage that set them back evolutionarily speaking tens of thousands of years.