Nature: the first men on Earth appeared 200 thousand years ago in Africa

2019-10-29T17:30:33.051Z

Australian researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research Data Intensive Computer Engineering in Sydney, following extensive genetic analysis, have scientifically motivated the theory of where and when the first humans appeared on the planet - Homo sapiens sapiens. This was announced by the Rovista Nature. Scientists have studied the mitochondrial genome of residents of several South African countries and, based on the results, a catalog of haplogroup L0, the first known population of modern humans, was compiled. As a result, Australian scientists have discovered that the first Homo Sapiens Sapiens mother line appeared south of the Zambezi river basin, in the area that includes the territory of present-day Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. According to them, the ancestors of contemporary human beings appeared in southern Africa 200,000 years ago and about 130,000 years later they began to spread all over the Earth. Scientists believe that the first Homo Sapiens Sapiens came out of its historical geographical area and started moving north due to climate and tectonic changes caused by the drying of the lakes.