Journal of Biology (Feb 2009)

Timing the first human migration into eastern Asia

  • Stanyon Roscoe,
  • Sazzini Marco,
  • Luiselli Donata

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/jbiol115
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 2
p. 18

Abstract

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Abstract A recent report in BMC Biology indicates that modern humans first arrived in southern East Asia 60,000 years ago and settled the rest of East Asia from there. This early date and migration route has significant implications for our understanding of the origins of present-day human populations.