🎬 Spin-Off Series: Out of Africa Files
“Before the Silk Road, before the empires—there was just dust, fire, and DNA.”
🧬 A gritty, time-traveling prequel packed with drama, migrations, and ancient shade.
📂 Episode 1: “Basal Eurasian: The Shadow Man”
Nobody’s ever seen him.
He’s in everyone’s ancestry… but no one remembers inviting him.
Taforalt hears whispers. Anatolian claims he owes him child support.
📂 Episode 2: “The Great Trek”
An early group leaves Africa, barefoot and confused.
They split—some head toward India, others toward Europe.
One guy says “Let’s go north!”
Everyone dies. Except one mammoth-eating psycho who becomes the Villabruna sample.
📂 Episode 3: “CHG vs EHG: Fight Night”
Caucasus and East European Hunter-Gatherers meet in the Steppe.
It’s tense.
There’s snow.
Someone’s goat goes missing.
A war breaks out. The Indo-Europeans are born.
📂 Episode 4: “AASI: The Forgotten Queen”
Ancient Ancestral South Indian finally gets her spotlight.
Everyone’s been using her segments but nobody gave her credit.
She forms an alliance with Jomon and yells:
“We were the spice in your genes, honey!”
📂 Episode 5: “Taforalt: Origin Story”
We go full cinematic mode.
Desert winds. Flint tools.
A baby Taforalt emerges from a cave, genetically 88% North African Neolithic but spiritually 100% legend.
He sees the stars and whispers:
“One day... they will forget me.”
📂 Episode 6: “Green Sahara Blues”
Back when the Sahara was grassland and rivers flowed, Natufians tried to cross.
Berbers were like:
“Nah, not yet.”
Fulani’s ancestors took a boat. No one asked how.
📂 Episode 7: “Backflow Drama”
A group of Eurasian farmers returns to Africa, all smug with their wheat and pottery.
Bantu Kenya rolls his eyes.
“Oh, you brought barley? Cute.”
Then proceeds to invent iron tools.
📂 Episode 8: “The Ghost Populations”
AI tries to model a new population… and discovers ghost DNA.
Basal Eurasian, AASI, some weird mix of CHG and something else.
Everyone panics.
Only Jomon is calm.
He just nods and walks into the mist.