Lives and Lines Integrating molecular genetics, the ‘origins of modern humans’ and Indigenous knowledge

Within Palaeolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology a general consensus seems to have formed over the last decades that modern humans – people like us – originated in Africa around 150,000 to 200,000 years ago and subsequently migrated into the remaining parts of the Old and New World to reach Au...

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Published inLong History, Deep Time p. 203
Main Author Martin Porr
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published ANU Press 17.08.2015
Subjects
Animals
Archaeological paradigms
Archaeology
Biological evolution
Biological sciences
Biology
Communications
Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary genetics
Evolutionary studies
Genetics
Human genetics
Humans
Mammals
Medical genetics
Molecular genetics
Narrative modes
Narratives
Paleoanthropology
Paleontology
Primates
Social sciences
Zoology
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Summary:Within Palaeolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology a general consensus seems to have formed over the last decades that modern humans – people like us – originated in Africa around 150,000 to 200,000 years ago and subsequently migrated into the remaining parts of the Old and New World to reach Australia by about 50,000 years ago and Patagonia by about 13,000 years ago.¹ This view is encapsulated in describing Africa as ‘the cradle of humankind’. This usually refers to the origins of the genus Homo between two and three million years ago, but it is readily extended to the processes leading to the origins
ISBN:9781925022520
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