But modern humans outcompeted the natives, slowly but inexorably driving them to extinction, Petraglia says. "It's just like the story in Western Europe, where [modern humans] drove Neandertals to extinction," he says... Athreya of Texas A&M argues that the evidence for such a "replacement event" in India remains weak. "You have to explain the reasons for the replacement, [such as] technical superiority," she said. "The genetic evidence shows there were multiple migrations out of Africa, so there would have been multiple migrations into [India]. But I think these migrating populations didn't completely replace the indigenous group."Multiregionalism from evidence, Replacement from bias. :')
They fail to mention that Toba almost killed all humans on earth and did kill everyone in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Only 2-10,000 humans worldwide survived the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago.