and Native Americans) and West Eurasian branch (ancestral to modern Europeans and Middle Easterners) around 46,000 years ago. Tianyuan man from northern China, who unambiguously belongs to the East Eurasian branch dates to the end of the IUP, around 40,000 years ago. However, many sequenced individuals from the Initial Upper Palaeolithic belong to now extinct branches of the out of Africa population that are not closely related or ancestral to modern non-African groups.