SUZE: When a group of modern humans began their exodus out of Africa some 60,000 years ago, Egypt may have been the last stop.
By testing the genetic makeup of different African populations, researchers were able to follow humanity’s first steps into Eurasia. According to a study published today in the “American Journal of Human Genetics,” genetic similarities between Egyptians and Eurasians suggests that Pleistocene emigrants travelled through Egypt.
The “out-of-Africa” theory is the most widely recognized model for the movement of modern humans into Eurasia. It postulates that, at some point after the evolution of the first anatomically modern humans in Africa, there was a large migration out of the continent. Paleoanthropologists estimate that the move occurred between 125,000 and 60,000 years ago, but disagree on whether there was a single exodus or many. The prehistoric travelers, who may have used land bridges and simple rafts to cross, became the first modern human populations in Europe and Asia.
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