Out of Africa: Newly devised human family tree reveals the 'genealogy of everyone'

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A large-scale 'out of Africa' migration led our species to distant locales and occasional interbreeding with Denisovans and Neanderthals.

A large-scale"out of Africa" migration led our species to distant locales and occasional interbreeding with Denisovans and Neanderthals.A large-scale"out of Africa" migration led our species to distant locales and occasional interbreeding with Denisovans and Neanderthals. Pictured: Fossilised remains at a prehistoric site in Italy.

The very earliest ancestors we identify trace back in time to a geographic location that is in modern Sudan.

“For example, people in Papua New Guinea and Oceania have quite large amounts of Denisovan ancestry, but even people living in Europe have some ancestry that looks like these ancient people,” Wohns said. The study raises the possibility that our species populated the Americas and Oceania well before the earliest archaeological evidence of human presence in those regions.

 

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