The skull suggests Homo sapiens may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than previously thought, and in Asia not Africa, the study, published on Friday, said.

I’m highly skeptical. If that’s the case why does Africa have the most current genetic diversity of anywhere in the world? We evolved in Asia and sprinted to Africa to genetically diversify, and also for some reason the humans left behind in Asia had a bottleneck? Why are our closest nonhuman relatives in Africa if we didn’t evolve there? Why does so much of the evidence fit Africa if it’s not Africa?

I find it more likely this was a member of an early population wave out of Africa that failed for some reason.