Sentences with phrase «early modern humans migrated»

They believe the finding could rewrite the history of when early modern humans migrated out of Africa.

Not exact matches

While fossil records prove that some anatomically modern human groups reached the Levantine corridor (the modern Middle East) as early as 100,000 years ago, genetic testing indicates that human populations inhabiting the globe today descended from a single group that migrated from Africa only 70,000 years ago — an unexplained gap of 30,000 years.

This timeframe suggests that early modern humans or Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa thousands of years earlier than what scientists previously thought.