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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

Pan-African model explains

Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Zhe Xue, Michela Leonardi, Manolo Fernandez Perez, Johanna L A Paijmans, Margherita Colucci, Anahit Hovhannisyan, Pierpaolo Maisano-Delser, Javier Blanco-Portillo, Alexander G Ioannidis and 12 more

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Cecilia Padilla-IglesiasEvolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1302-5955
Zhe XueEvolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.
Michela LeonardiEvolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.
Manolo Fernandez PerezDepartment of Biodiversity and Conservation, Real Jardín Botánico (RJB-CSIC), Madrid, 28014, Spain.
Johanna L A PaijmansEvolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.
Margherita ColucciEvolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.
Anahit HovhannisyanSmurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland.
Pierpaolo Maisano-DelserEvolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.
Javier Blanco-PortilloDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, 371 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Alexander G IoannidisDepartment of Biomolecular Engineering and Genomics Institute, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Giulio LucariniNational Research Council of Italy, Institute of Heritage Science (CNR-ISPC), Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 10, Rome 00144, Italy.
Jacopo N CerasoniDepartment of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, 1032 W. Sheridan Road,Chicago, IL 60660, USA.
Andrew W KandelThe Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans (ROCEEH), Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Hölderlinerstrasse 112, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.
Manuel WillDepartment of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.
Emily Y HallettDepartment of Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago, 1032 W. Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60660, USA.
Mario KrappGNS Science, 82 Wyndham Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.
Karen LupoDepartment of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, PO Box 750336, Dallas, TX 75275, USA.
Eleanor M L ScerriSchool of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Deiniol Rd, Bangor LL57 2UR, UK.
Isabelle CrevecoeurUniversity of Bordeaux, CNRS, Ministère de la Culture, PACEA, UMR 5199, F-33600 Pessac, France.
Lucio ViniciusHuman Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland.
Andrea B MiglianoHuman Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland.
Andrea ManicaEvolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A growing body of evidence has challenged the traditional assumption of a single-region origin for

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PMCPMC13142462

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