Paleoanthropologists use models to show humans may have left Africa earlier than thought
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —A team of European researchers is suggesting that humans dispersed out of Africa in multiple waves, rather than in just one, and that it occurred much earlier than has been previously thought. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes how they built migration models based on gene flow and skull characteristics to predict human migration out of Africa.