Two new studies of DNA obtained from Southeast Asian islanders support the unconventional view that, roughly 70,000 years ago, our African ancestors migrated into Asia by traveling along that continent’s southern coast.
Anthropologists have traditionally held that the first modern people left Africa around that time by following the Nile River northward and then crossing the Sinai Peninsula into Asia.
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