Previously, the most widely accepted theory was that all modern humans derive from a single out-of-Africa migration wave into Europe, Asia, and Australia. According to this model, the first Australians branched off from an Asian population that had already separated from the ancestors of Europeans.
Elizabethan - a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I; William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan. individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; there was too much for one person to do.
Elizabethan literature, body of works written during the reign of Elizabeth I of England (1558â1603), probably the most splendid age in the history of English literature, during which such writers as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Roger Ascham, Richard Hooker, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare flourished.