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The African Emergence and Early Asian Dispersals of the Genus Homo
Posted: Saturday, November 30, 1996
People have recognized for some time that humankind's origins lay in Africa, when about 2 million years ago the early members of the genus Homo diverged from their more ape-like Australopith ancestors. Until recently, the fossil evidence suggested that hominids did not leave Africa for another million years. In recent excavations of Asia, however, our authors add to a growing cache of fossil evidence that places hominids in Asia about 2 million years ago, 1 million years earlier than previously thought. This new date, argue Larick and Ciochon, changes the circumstances in which the earliest hominids started to migrate to other continents. In their article, they propose a scenario that links the emergence of the new genus with its almost immediate migration. More
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Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 1996
People have recognized for some time that humankind's origins lay in Africa, when about 2 million years ago the early members of the genus Homo diverged from their more ape-like Australopith ancestors. Until recently, the fossil evidence suggested that hominids did not leave Africa for another million years. In recent excavations of Asia, however, our authors add to a growing cache of fossil evidence that places hominids in Asia about 2 million years ago, 1 million years earlier than previously thought. This new date, argue Larick and Ciochon, changes the circumstances in which the earliest hominids started to migrate to other continents. In their article, they propose a scenario that links the emergence of the new genus with its almost immediate migration. More
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