Past climate swings orchestrated early human migration waves out of Africa
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 07:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A small group of Homo sapiens left Africa around 100,000 years ago in a series of astronomically paced slow migration waves and arrived for the first time in southern Europe around 80,000-90,000 years ago, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. These results by a team of researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa challenge prominent anthropological models that assume a single exodus out of Africa around 60,000 years ago.