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This is about the the oldest genome that was found in Southern Spain. It's not saying that the oldest genome was found in Spain.

Though, there may be something to what you said with this statement from the article:

  "In Malalmuerzo, we found no evidence of a genetic 
  contribution from North African lineages, and conversely,
  there is no evidence of a genetic contribution from
  southern Spain in the genomes of the 14,000-year-old
  individuals from the Taforalt cave in Morocco," said
  Gerd-Christian Weniger from the University of Cologne.

Oldest Homo sapiens remains are from much earlier, Morocco region, appx 300k years ago. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/essential-time...

It is way more complicated than that. Even within Africa different groups moved around and exchanged with each other, then out of Africa there was intermingling along with returns to Africa and yet more migrations out of Africa.

Doesn't seem contradictory to me tbh. If the person in Spain descended from someone who left Sub-Saharan Africa 50k years earlier, they wouldn't necessarily be closely related to a genetically distinct population in North Africa (especially since IIRC there's evidence of people from Eurasia migrating to North Africa, it wasn't a one-way exodus where people left Africa and only expanded outward)

> who left Sub-Saharan Africa 50k years earlier,

[citation needed]. We have human bones from outside of Africa that predate this. Some of the oldest are found in the Middle East/Caucasus.

Citation: Some of the oldest human remains ever unearthed are the Omo One bones found in Ethiopia. For decades, their precise age has been debated, but a new study argues they're around 233,000 years old.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072867405/scientists-determi...

There's a good amount of evidence showing multiple migrations out of Africa (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.012, http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-9012). The presence of someone who came after the oldest hypothesized migration doesn't negate previous waves.

DNA doesn’t survive very long but bones can and we have much older bones from Africa

Bones from something, I'm sure.

East-African Homo Sapiens and so very much "human" bones dated to be approximately 350–130 thousand years old according to https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04275-8

Is that what the article says? Or is that just your interpretation of the headline?

I refuse coming from Spain /s

I refuse your refusal

To keep agreement, I refuse.

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