WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - Our species emerged in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, with a migration out of the continent 60,000 to 70,000 years ago heralding the start of the global spread of ...

Out of their 300,000 years of existence, Homo sapiens have spend the majority of their time in Africa, the undisputable motherland of our species. It wasn’t until 60,000 years ago that major waves of ...

What routes did Homo sapiens take on his way from Africa to Europe and Asia in the previous millennia? The climatic conditions changed, and with them the living conditions. The advance was hampered in ...

Fossils discovered at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco represent the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens, dating back around 300,000 years. This episode explores how these finds reshaped ideas about human ...

WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Our species arose in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, with the oldest-known Homo sapiens fossils discovered at a site in Morocco called Jebel Irhoud, located between ...

For decades, the story of Homo sapiens has been told as a linear process, with a more or less localised origin and a ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

(THE CONVERSATION) – Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic ...

Researchers concluded that modern humans descended from Africa before migrating out of the continent 60,000 to 70,000 years ago. According to the report, modern humans migrated from Africa to settle ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – without other hunter-gatherer groups coming in from elsewhere.

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