Modern humans may have originated in southern Africa, researchers say
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 01:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team from Stanford analyzes genetic markers and surmises that our oldest ancestors lived in the southern, not eastern, region. Not everyone agrees with the researchers' reasoning.The largest genetic analysis of African populations to date suggests that modern humans originated in southern Africa about 60,000 years ago, not eastern Africa as is now commonly thought, researchers said Monday.