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In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. The timing of the first arrival of Homo sapiens in East Asia from Africa and the degree to which they interbred with or replaced local archaic populations is controversial.
TPL 6 confirms the presence of H. Geometric morphometric analyses of TPL 6 suggest descent from a gracile immigrant population rather than evolution from or admixture with local archaic populations. Current genetic and fossil evidence points to an African origin of Homo sapiens around kyr 1 , 2.
The number, timing, and route s of human dispersals out of Africa into Eurasia is intensely debated see refs. Genomic evidence strongly supports a single rapid dispersal of all ancestral non-African H. While there is some genetic evidence supporting a separate, early worldwide expansion of H.
Fossil and archeological evidence for early range expansions include the famous sites of Skhul and Qafzeh in Israel and more recent finds in the eastern Mediterranean, Arabian Peninsula, East and Southeast Asia, and Australia. A recent attempt to verify the dating of several of these sites by Sun et al.
