Going East: New Genetic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Modern Human Colonization of Eurasia
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- 11 August 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 313 (5788) , 796-800
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1128402
Abstract
The pattern of dispersal of biologically and behaviorally modern human populations from their African origins to the rest of the occupied world between ∼60,000 and 40,000 years ago is at present a topic of lively debate, centering principally on the issue of single versus multiple dispersals. Here I argue that the archaeological and genetic evidence points to a single successful dispersal event, which took genetically and culturally modern populations fairly rapidly across southern and southeastern Asia into Australasia, and with only a secondary and later dispersal into Europe.Keywords
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