Were the negroid ancestors unable to advance technologically without our genes? Why exactly did a hybrid of the then African and then Homo sapiens, the cro-magnon, break through the late Stone Age barrier? The article presents the discovery of two new sites in Senegal that date the end of the Middle Paleolithic to about 11,000 years ago, the youngest known MSA period in Africa. The findings underscore the significant spatial and temporal variation in culture during the late Pleistocene of Africa.