Like all peoples, West Africans descend from multiple populations who crossed paths in the past and subsequently exchanged genes. Herein is presented a hypothesis regarding the identities of the populations from whom West Africans descend, as well as the type of humans that these populations were. If you like, you may read a blog that corresponds to the contents of this video: https://www.theinsurmountablefort.com/the-fort/human-ancestry-tree 00:00:00 Channel Logo 00:00:05 Anthropological Terms 00:01:39 Archaic or Modern Ancestry? 00:03:47 Ancestry Revealed 00:06:26 Source of the Ancestry? 00:09:06 Paternal Haplogroup A00 00:09:57 Basal Modern Human Analysis 00:12:16 Two Populations of Basal Modern Humans 00:16:00 A00 May Be From North Africa 00:16:39 West Africans & Bantus Are from North Africa 00:19:10 The birth of West Africans & Bantus 00:21:11 The Source Population of West Africans' Admixture Revealed 00:26:53 Outro & Gratitude To Viewers