Human phylogeography and diversity

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Author: Harcourt, Alexander H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2016
• Subjects: Sackler Colloquium on In the Light of Evolution X: Comparative Phylogeography; Arctic; Kya; New Zealand; Pacific; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4961125/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27432967; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601068113

Homo sapiens phylogeography begins with the species’ origin nearly 200 kya in Africa. First signs of the species outside Africa (in Arabia) are from 125 kya. Earliest dates elsewhere are now 100 kya in China, 45 kya in Australia and southern Europe (maybe even 60 kya in Australia), 32 kya in northea...