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SCIENCE
Volume 358, Issue 6368, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aai9067
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- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
- National Geographic Society
- U.S. National Science Foundation
- Academy of Korean Studies
- College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- School of Pacific at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- European Research Council [ERC-2012-AdG-324139 PALAEOCHRON, ERC-2016-STG-715069 FINDER, ERC-2011-AdG-295719 PALAEODESERTS]
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The traditional out of Africa model, which posits a dispersal of modern Homo sapiens across Eurasia as a single wave at similar to 60,000 years ago and the subsequent replacement of all indigenous populations, is in need of revision. Recent discoveries from archaeology, hominin paleontology, geochronology, genetics, and paleoenvironmental studies have contributed to a better understanding of the Late Pleistocene record in Asia. Important findings highlighted here include growing evidence for multiple dispersals predating 60,000 years ago in regions such as southern and eastern Asia. Modern humans moving into Asia met Neandertals, Denisovans, mid-Pleistocene Homo, and possibly H. floresiensis, with some degree of interbreeding occurring. These early human dispersals, which left at least some genetic traces in modern populations, indicate that later replacements were not wholesale.
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