"Out of Africa"
vs.
"Multi-Regional Hypothesis"

In the News

see also:

Map of early human migrations
according to mitochondrial population genetics
Wikipedia

 
(enlarge map)

One model of human migration based on Mitochondrial DNA
Wikipedia

In the News . . .

• Research Team Uses Climate Data to Uncover New Clues about Human Migration -- The Scout Report, July 31, 2015 -- Volume 22, Number 43.
  
  
• Great Human Odyssey -- Nova (05 October 2016)
  
  
• How China Is Rewriting the Book on Human Origins -- Nature (12 July 2016)
  
  
• Some Stone Age Humans Returned to Africa -- Science News (19 May 2016)
  
  
• Correction: Ancient Migration-DNA Story -- ABC News (18 February 2016)
  
  
• Asia Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving in Prehistory -- Conversation (08 February 2016)
  
  
• Humans evolved by sharing technology and culture -- ScienceDaily (02 February 2016)
  
  
• Asian Stone Tools Hint Humans Left Africa Earlier Than Thought -- New Scientist (02 February 2016)
  
  
• Harmful Mutations Have Accumulated During Early Human Migrations Out of Africa -- Past Horizons (18 January 2016)
  
  
• Here's How Genetics Helped Crack the History of Human Migration -- Phys.org (14 January 2016)
  
  
• Green Arabia's Key Role in Human Evolution -- BBC News (16 September 2015)
  
  
• Homo habilis was first human to leave Africa, study suggests -- DiscoveryNews (21 July 2015)
  
  
• First Humans Out of Africa Were Small, Scrappy -- Discovery News (21 July 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Human Migration Route Marked by Snail Shell "Bread Crumbs" -- Scientific American (06 June 2015)
  
  
• Genetic study points to northern route out of Africa through Egypt -- Past Horizons (29 May 2015)
  
  
• Ethiopian and Egyptian genomes help map early humans' route out of Africa -- ScienceDaily (28 May 2015)
  
  
• Trail of Tools Reveals Modern Humans' Path Out of Africa -- National Geographic News (24 February 2015)
  
  
• Humans may have migrated out of Africa in phases based on the weather -- Past Horizons (21 February 2015)
  
  
• Out Of Africa Due To Weather: Did Climate Change Cause Early Human Migration? -- Science 2.0 (20 February 2015)
  
  
• Discovery: Oldest Stone Tool Ever Found In Turkey -- Science 2.0 (23 December 2014)
  
  
• How It All Began -- NPR-TED (24 October 2014)
  • Are All Human Beings Related? Spencer Wells -- NPR-TED (24 October 2014)
  • Where Did Human Beings Originate? Louise Leakey -- NPR-TED (24 October 2014)
  • Why Did Humans Migrate Out Of Africa? Spencer Wells -- NPR-TED (24 October 2014)
  • Are We Evolving Into A Different Species? Juan Enriquez -- NPR-TED (24 October 2014)
    
    
• Chinese Homo Sapiens Fossil Shifts Perceptions of Dispersal -- Past Horizons (20 September 2014)
  
  

• Using HSV-1 Genome Phylogenetics to Track Past Human Migrations -- PLoS ONE (16 October 2013)
  
  
• Skull Fossil Suggests Simpler Human Lineage [Dmanisi] -- New York Times (17 October 2013)
  
  
• Out-of-Africa Skull May Trim Human Family Tree -- Discovery News (17 October 2013)
  
  
• Blow to multiple human species idea -- BBC News (17 October 2013)
  
  
• Buried Saharan Rivers May Have Led Humans Out of Africa -- LiveScience (11 September 2013)
  
  
• Were Rivers Flowing across the Sahara During the Last Interglacial? Implications for Human Migration through Africa -- PLoS ONE (11 September 2013)
  
  
• Tuberculosis Hitched A Ride When Early Humans Left Africa -- NPR (05 September 2013)
  
  
• First Migration from Africa Less Than 95,000 Years Ago: Ancient Hunter-Gatherer DNA Challenges Theory of Early Out-Of-Africa Migrations -- ScienceDaily (22 March 2013)
  
  
• Tracing Humanity's African Ancestry May Mean Rewriting 'Out of Africa' Dates Science Daily -- ScienceDaily (13 December 2012)
  
  
• Writer Prepares to Retrace Early Humans' Journey Out of Africa's Great Rift Valley -- Guardian (08 December 2012)
  
  
• Africa's Homo Sapiens Were the First Techies -- ScienceDaily (05 december 2012)
  
  
• How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. -- NPR (22 October 2012)
  
  
• Fuller Picture of Human Expansion from Africa -- ScienceDaily (22 October 2012)
  
  
• Recapturing the heritage of the Khoe-San -- Past Horizons (21 September 2012)
  
  
• Khoe-San Peoples Diverged Before 'Out-Of-Africa' Migration of Modern Humans -- ScienceDaily (20 September 2012)
  
  
• Genetic Mutation May Have Allowed Early Humans to Migrate Throughout Africa -- ScienceDaily (19 September 2012)
  
  
• Adaptive Evolution of the FADS Gene Cluster within Africa -- PLoS ONE (19 September 2012)
  
  
• Out of Africa? Data Fail to Support Language Origin in Africa -- ScienceDaily (15 February 2012)
  
  
• Following Genetic Footprints Out of Africa: First Modern Humans Settled in Arabia -- ScienceDaily (26 January 2012)
  
  

• African and Non-African Populations Intermixed Well After Migration out of Africa 60,000 Years Ago, Genome Studies Show -- ScienceDaily (13 July 2011)
  
  
• Ancient Hominids May Have Been Seafarers -- ScienceNews (08 January 2010)
  
  
• Arabian Artifacts May Rewrite 'Out of Africa' Theory -- Live Science (30 November 2011)
  
  
• Chinese Challenge to 'Out of Africa' Theory -- New Scientist (03 November 2009)
  
  
• Early Humans' Route Out of Africa 'Confirmed' -- BBC News (02 November 2011)
  
  
• Fish Swam the Sahara, Bolstering Out of Africa Theory -- Live Science (28 December 2010)
  
  
• Genetic "Adam" never met "Eve" -- BBC
  
  
• Greening Of The Sahara Desert Triggered Early Human Migrations Out Of Africa-- ScienceDaily (09 November 2009)
  
  
• Human Ancestor Older Than Previously Thought; Finding Offers New Insights Into Evolution -- ScienceDaily (29 June 2011)
  
  
• Humans Left Africa Earlier, During Ice Age Heat Wave -- National Geographic News (27 January 2011)
  
  
• Humans 'Left Africa Much Earlier' -- BBC News (27 January 2011)
  
  
• Innovation Linked to Human Migration Out of Africa -- National Geographic New (31 October 2008)
  
  
• Language Like People Came Out of Africa -- Telegraph (14 April 2011)
  
  
• New Classification Of African Middle Stone Age -- ScienceDaily (31 October 2008)
  
  
• New Evidence Provides An Alternative Route 'Out Of Africa' For Early Humans -- ScienceDaily (15 October 2008)
  
  
• New 'Molecular Clock' Aids Dating Of Human Migration History -- ScienceDaily (04 May 2009)
  
  
• 'New Pathway' for African Exodus -- BBC News (14 October 2008)
  
  
• Oman discoveries identify one of the first humans out of Africa -- Past Horizons (02 December 2011)
  
  
• Out-of-Africa Migration Selected Novelty-Seeking Genes -- New Scientist (06 May 2011)
  
  
• Population Genetics Reveals Shared Ancestries -- EurekAlert (24 May 2011)
  
  
• Stone Age humans crossed Sahara in the rain -- New Scientist (09 November 2009)
  
  
• Technological Innovation May Have Driven First Human Migration -- Nature (30 October 2008)
  
  
• Teeth and jaw are from 'earliest Europeans' -- BBC News (02 November 2011)
  
  
• Videos
  
  
  • Children of Eve (58 min., 1987, VC 961) -- a historical look at "Eve" and other important finds
    
    
  • VIDEO: Proof of Bible's King David? -- National Geographic News (31 October 2008)
    
    
• Which Way 'Out of Africa'? -- EurekAlert (13 October 2008)
  
  
• Y-Chromosome: Y and Mighty -- Kevin MacDonald

"An artist's impression of Mitochondrial Eve
who probably lived in Africa,
about 150,000 years ago."
Wikipedia

 

A graph detailing the origin of modern humans using the Multiregional theory of human evolution. The horizontal lines represent 'multiregional evolution' gene flow betwen regional lineages.
  Wikipedia