Comments | anthropologist: Humans Migrated Out of Africa, Then Some Went Back, Study Says

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Humans Migrated Out of Africa, Then Some Went Back, Study Says

Dec 15, 2006 21:42

Humans first moved out of Africa about 70,000 years ago, but 30,000 years later some of them moved back.

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human evolution, genetics, africa, biological anthropology, migration

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jack_leigh December 16 2006, 15:49:15 UTC

Another migration out and back happened several million years ago apparently, before even Austrolopithecus, so this isn't entirely illogical.

I wonder what reason they might have had though. Better climate or food options? Less chance of being hunted themselves? Maybe a curiosity to explore (humans are curious after all)?

(By the way, I like that icon.)