Rather, multiple migrations out of Africa, beginning 120,000 years ago, gave rise to the modern population of people, said the findings in the US journal Science. Other fossil discoveries show that modern humans reached southeast Asia and Australia prior to 60,000 years ago. “A later, major ‘Out of Africa’ event most likely occurred around 60,000 years ago or thereafter,” he said. Recent research has confirmed that this mass migration 60,000 years ago “contributed the bulk of the genetic make-up of present-day non-Africans,” said the report. “It is now clear that modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and perhaps other hominin groups likely overlapped in time and space in Asia, and they certainly had many instances of interaction,” said the study.

Source: The Express Tribune December 08, 2017 06:33 UTC