Michel E. Hammer (yes, the possibly first real back to Africa geneticist) in Scientific American vol. 308, #5, 2013: "The roots of modern humans trace back to not just a single ancestral population in Africa but to populations throughout the Old World."
Peter Klevius: Yes, this is the same Hammer as I referred to in my original online theory Out of Africa as pygmies and back as global mongoloids (2004 before Homo floresiensis, not to mention Denisovan, was known about). And like many of Klevius favorites he lacks a Wikipedia entry.
However, during these years an even more Asia centered option has harassed my mind. What if old genes were scattered over the whole Old World before the appearance of modern humans, and that what we now see in genetics is a consequence of back migration that made e.g. L1 and L2 like haplogroups appear "out of Africa"?
The problem for me is the short (and from an other perspective too long) known time span of Floresiensis on Flores (some 100,000 years).
However, what seems crystal clear is that modern humans intellectually/culturally was born some >40,000 years ago in the region of southern Siberia (Denisova/Altai etc).
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