Here's how genetics helped crack the history of human migration
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 08:51
in Biology & Nature
Over the past 25 years, scientists have supported the view that modern humans left Africa around 50,000 years ago, spreading to different parts of the world by replacing resident human species like the Neanderthals. However, rapid advances in genetic sequencing have opened up a whole new window into the past, suggesting that human history is much more complicated.