ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020
Our species evolutionary success story is intriguing. For over a century, we have been trying to formulate a narrative for the evolutionary and migration steps our ancestors took and made us who we are today. Several decades ago, our narrative for our lineage’s dispersals from our place of origin, Africa, across the globe, was based on two separate big waves: one with Homo erectus at ca. 1 million years ago and the second with modern humans 60-50 thousand years ago. However, recent archaeological, paleoanthropological, and genetic evidence has forced us to alter this narrative to one which favors more dynamic geographic movements of hominins over several millions of years. Yet, although we…
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