ANT100Y1 Lecture 10: Origin and Spread of Modern Humans
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Humans are the only hominin to populate the entire world. We are all part of the single species that originated in africa 160-200 kya. Took another 100k years to leave africa, after developing into multiple populations. Earliest modern member of our species not immediately associated with the full range of modern behaviours. Takes a long time to accumulate all the cultural characteristics (tools, art) that are part of what we are today they do not appear all at once. Human interaction with neanderthal: not clear, not much interbreeding, but it did happen. Modern humans probably displaced them and other homo sapiens rapidly. The levant, a number a sites show modern human made an initial migration there, retreated back to africa, then again later populated the levant area. Once homo sapiens were around for a millennia, most aspects of modern behaviour was developed.
