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The Origins of Humanity: Out of Africa and the Genetic Connections
TLDR The out-of-Africa hypothesis suggests that humans originated in Africa and genetic evidence supports the idea that many early hominid fossils were not our ancestors but rather our ancient cousins. Multiple waves of homo sapien migrations out of Africa occurred, with modern humans migrating out around 70,000 years ago and eventually populating the rest of the world.
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Human beings walked out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, and the out-of-Africa hypothesis suggests that humans originated in Africa.
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The multi-regional hypothesis of human evolution, also known as MRE, proposed in 1984, suggested that different hominid groups left Africa several hundred thousand years ago and evolved separately, but this theory is highly improbable and assumes that most of the hominid fossils found were ancestors of humans.
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The recent African origin model, supported by genetic testing, shows that all humans originated from a single group in Africa about 200,000 years ago.
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The recent genetic evidence supports the idea that many early hominid fossils were not our ancestors, but rather our ancient cousins, and also reveals that Neanderthals were not our ancestors but share genetic similarities with Homo sapiens, including a genetic risk factor for COVID-19.
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There were multiple waves of homo sapien migrations out of Africa, including one around 275,000 years ago that may have included a species closely related to homo sapiens.
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Modern humans migrated out of Africa around 70,000 years ago, following the Southern Route and spreading across Arabia, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, eventually reaching Australia, while Europe and North Asia were populated later due to climate, and humans didn't enter the Americas until about 20,000 to 15,000 years ago.
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All humans have distant ancestors who originated from Africa.
