A working model on the peopling of Eurasia
This post will deal with the peopling of Eurasia by modern humans and their subsequent Paleolithic movements and divergence patterns. – Part I of our "in development" series on the question to ' who we are and where we came from ': Paleolithic to Epipaleolithic period. Overview Modern humans have a "recent African" origin, having evolved within the African continent, and diversified there; one of those branches became isolated in Northeast Africa and would subsequently became ancestral to all modern living 'non-African populations': Eurasians . This branch would carry out the "Out of Africa" migration, – but they were not the first humans to leave Africa; they were preceded by earlier extinct waves of modern humans, possibly distantly related to those of the later main OoA wave – as well as deeper archaic groups which would have become ancestral to the Neanderthals or Denisovans. During or shortly after the Out of Africa migration of modern...