210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe, Asia
Can someone link to a kind of summary of the current best understanding of human evolution and dispersal? It's really fascinating to me.Until recently, I had naively understood "Out of Africa" to mean that homo sapiens evolved in Africa from some sort of ape like thing and then went out and conquered the world. But the idea that homo sapiens is just one of many kinds of human species, and that other ones like Neanderthals and Denosivans left Africa earlier (or evolved from homo erectus who left earlier still...?) is really mind blowing. It's weird to me to think of multiple human species living at the same time.