What is Out of Africa about?
Q: What is Out of Africa about?
A: Out of Africa is about the recent African origin of modern humans.
Q: What evidence supports the idea that modern humans originated in Africa?
A: The idea is supported by a study of present-day mitochondrial DNA, and other sequence analysis, as well as evidence based on the physical anthropology of archaic fossil remains.
Q: How long ago did the first truly modern humans appear?
A: The first truly modern humans seem to have appeared between 200,000 and 130,000 years ago.
Q: When did Homo sapiens reach western Europe?
A: By about 42 to 44,000 years ago Homo sapiens had reached western Europe, including Britain.
Q: When did Homo sapiens arrive in Australia?
A: At roughly the same time they arrived in Australia - around 42 to 44,000 years ago.
Q: When did they arrive in the Americas? A: Their arrival in the Americas was much later - about 15,000 years ago.
Q: How long has Homo sapiens been evolving into anatomically modern humans solely in Africa? A: Genetic studies and fossil evidence show that archaic Homo sapiens evolved to anatomically modern humans solely in Africa between 200,000 and 60,000 years ago.
