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Follow Apr. 7, 2021 Modern humanity began to evolve in Africa at least 300,000 years ago and began to exit the continent for Eurasia at least 200,000 years ago. The earliest Homo sapiens migrants out of Africa went extinct. All non-Africans descend from modern human migrants around 50,000 years ago – from some of them, that is. Now two new genetic studies have identified three early humans in Bulgaria, whose descendants seem to live on, and a woman in the Czech Republic, as among the first to...

Published in , the new paper shows that the 45,000-year-old Bacho Kiro Cave people contributed genes to present-day people. “Surprisingly,” wrote the scientists, the bulk of these genes are to be found in modern day East Asia, and the Americas, while it was expected that these genes would be found in populations closer to where they lived, at the Bacho Kiro Cave in Europe. Another skeleton was discovered in Bacho Kiro Cave dating to 35,000-year-ago, that was not related to the earlier peo...

Get email notification for articles from Ruth Schuster Follow Apr. 7, 2021 6:05 PM Modern humanity began to evolve in Africa at least 300,000 years ago and began to exit the continent for Eurasia at least 200,000 years ago. The earliest Homo sapiens migrants out of Africa went extinct. All non-Africans descend from modern human migrants around 50,000 years ago – from some of them, that is. Now two new genetic studies have identified three early humans in Bulgaria, whose descendants seem to l...