The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to Africa as the continent from which our ancestors dispersed in the Late ...

The Out of Africa theory describes how multiple human species first evolved in Africa and later spread into Eurasia and beyond. The account traces early migrations by Homo erectus, later dispersals by ...

Homo sapiens evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago and went on to become great walkers. With our bigger brains came curiosity about the world. People living outside of Africa today can trace their ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. The great out-of-Africa migration is one of the canonical ...