120kya: “In southern Africa, people from Stem1 and Stem2 merged, giving rise to a new lineage that would lead to the Nama and other living humans in that region. Elsewhere in Africa, a separate fusion of Stem1 and Stem2 groups took place.”

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Link. The second fusion was diaspora source. “The DNA of the Mende people showed that their ancestors had interbred with Stem2 people just 25,000 years ago.”