2021 research reinforced that mating across groups drove human evolution
Wednesday 15th December 20212021 research reinforced that mating across groups drove human evolution
Hominin skulls
Evidence that cross-continental Stone Age networking events powered human evolution ramped up in 2021.
A long-standing argument that Homo sapiens originated in East Africa before moving elsewhere and replacing Eurasian Homo species such as Neandertals has come under increasing fire over the last decade. Research this year supported an alternative scenario in which H. sapiens evolved across vast geographic expanses, first within Africa and later outside it.
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