Was North Africa the Launch Pad for Modern Human Migrations?

2011/01/06 by Michael Balter · 5 citations
Social Sciences · #African Studies and Geopolitics #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

paper · doi:10.1126/science.331.6013.20

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Abstract

A growing number of researchers suspect that long-neglected North Africa was the original home of the modern humans who first trekked out of the continent.

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• North Africa [wikipedia]
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