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Ray Tobler, Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University

Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa

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Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human diaspora across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 years ago.

In new research published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, we have uncovered dozens of distinctive historical changes in the human genome to reveal a new chapter in this story.

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