Sentences with phrase «migrated out of the continent»

Humans are thought to have first evolved in Africa, and evidence currently suggests that early humans first migrated out of the continent probably between 2 million and 1.8 million years ago.

We observed that East African populations exhibit a much larger degree of genetic diversity than other global groups, which further supports the Out - of - Africa theory (that postulates that modern humans originated in East Africa and migrated out of the continent to populate the world)» says Dr. Koehler.

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Guess if you go back reading your history in Europe or in the MidEast you will remember that your ancestors were because of such wars and conflicts driven out or migrated in force measure to overseas for finding the land they were told that they can practice their religious or non religious beliefs and rituals... Since then from different continents for many years made of the few branches many more branches in Black and in White...

As archaic humans, Neanderthals and other hominin species migrated out of Africa, what followed was a wave of size - biased extinction in mammals on all continents that intensified over time.

If the analysis holds up, it supports the controversial out - of - Africa theory that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa before migrating to other continents.

The «Out of Africa» theory of human migration proposes that our ancient Homo sapiens ancestors evolved in Africa before migrating in a single wave to the Asian continent about 60,000 years ago.