Earliest modern humans in Europe had Neanderthals in the family
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 leave Africa in the Great Exit – but her line apparently went extinct. All had Neanderthals in th...