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Exploration & Migration
The Story of Human Migration Out of Africa Is More Complex Than We Thought
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Humans reached the Arabian Peninsula 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.
The shifting sands of Arabia hide traces of our earliest ancestors.
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New fossil evidence suggests Homo sapiens crossed into Arabia over 125,000 years ago. This shatters the previous timeline that suggested a singular migration event 60,000 years ago.
"Modern humans reached Asia nearly 40,000 years earlier than standard models predicted."
These early pioneers took advantage of green corridors created by monsoon rains that transformed deserts into grasslands.
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