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An Asian perspective on early human dispersal from Africa

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  • Robin Dennell

    (University of Sheffield)

  • Wil Roebroeks

    (Leiden University)

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The past decade has seen the Pliocene and Pleistocene fossil hominin record enriched by the addition of at least ten new taxa, including the Early Pleistocene, small-brained hominins from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the diminutive Late Pleistocene Homo floresiensis from Flores, Indonesia. At the same time, Asia's earliest hominin presence has been extended up to 1.8 Myr ago, hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously envisaged. Nevertheless, the preferred explanation for the first appearance of hominins outside Africa has remained virtually unchanged. We show here that it is time to develop alternatives to one of palaeoanthropology's most basic paradigms: ‘Out of Africa 1’.

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  • Robin Dennell & Wil Roebroeks, 2005. "An Asian perspective on early human dispersal from Africa," Nature, Nature, vol. 438(7071), pages 1099-1104, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:438:y:2005:i:7071:d:10.1038_nature04259
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04259
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    1. Gallagher, Andrew, 2013. "Stature, body mass, and brain size: A two-million-year odyssey," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 11(4), pages 551-562.
    2. Zhenyu Qin & Xuefeng Sun, 2023. "Glacial–Interglacial Cycles and Early Human Evolution in China," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-26, August.
    3. S.T. Hussain & F. Riede, 2020. "Paleoenvironmental humanities: Challenges and prospects of writing deep environmental histories," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(5), September.

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