The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal

Abstract A combination of evidence, based on genetic, fossil and archaeological findings, indicates that Homo sapiens spread out of Africa between ~70-60 thousand years ago (kya). However, it appears that once outside of Africa, human populations did not expand across all of Eurasia until ~45 kya. T...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Leonardo Vallini, Carlo Zampieri, Mohamed Javad Shoaee, Eugenio Bortolini, Giulia Marciani, Serena Aneli, Telmo Pievani, Stefano Benazzi, Alberto Barausse, Massimo Mezzavilla, Michael D. Petraglia, Luca Pagani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-03-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46161-7