First Modern Humans Came Out of Egypt, Not Ethiopia, New Study Suggests

[God Was Not Black]

The first modern humans likely came out of African, but where in
has now been challenged.

According to Live Science, a new study published in the American
Journal of Human Genetics suggests the earliest modern humans
exited African through Egypt, not Ethiopia. Better accuracy in
man's history will help scientists more accurately explain their
evolution and dispersion across the world.

"Two geographically plausible routes have been proposed: an exit
through the current Egypt and Sinai, which is the northern
route, or one through Ethiopia, the Bab el Mandeb strait, and
the Arabian Peninsula, which is the southern route," study lead
author Luca Pagani, of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and
the University of Cambridge, said in a press release. "In our
research, we generated the first comprehensive set of unbiased
genomic data from Northeast Africans and observed, after
controlling for recent migrations, a higher genetic similarity
between Egyptians and Eurasians than between Ethiopians and
Eurasians.

"This information will be of great value as a freely available
reference panel for future medical and anthropological studies
in these areas."

The study authors now suggest Eurasians began to genetically
drift from Egyptians some 55,000 years ago, from Ethiopians
10,000 years later and from West Africans another 10,000 years
after that.

"The most exciting consequence of our results is to have
unveiled an episode of the evolutionary past of all Eurasians,"
Pagani told Live Science, "therefore potentially improving the
knowledge of billions of people on their deep biological
history."

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