"Modern humans migrated out of Africa via a southern route through
Arabia, rather than a northern route by way of Egypt, according to
research announced at a conference at the National Geographic Society
this week.
“Evolutionary history shows that human populations likely originated in Africa, and the Genographic Project,
the most extensive survey of human population genetic data to date,
suggests where they went next…Modern humans migrated out of Africa via a
southern route through Arabia, rather than a northern route by way of
Egypt,” said a news statement released by IBM."
“The divergence of a common genetic history between populations showed that Eurasian groups were more similar to populations from southern India, than they were to those in Africa. This supports a southern route of migration from Africa via the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in Arabia before any movement heading north, and suggests a special role for south Asia in the ‘out of Africa’ expansion of modern humans.”
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