Early human evolution was ‘multi-ethnic and multicultural’, scientists say

New analysis challenges traditional view of humanity's origins and suggests many populations of primitive people developed across Africa. The early evolution of humans was “multi-ethnic and multicultural”, according to a new analysis that challenges the traditional view of our species deep origins.

Rather than arising from a single fixed point in Africa, a team of international experts has suggested that the rise of modern humans was a much messier affair.

Ancient Africa was populated by separate populations of ancestral humans, scattered across the wild prehistoric continent and separated by deserts, forests and rivers, the study has suggested.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-evolution-africa-multicultural-ethnic-first-people-homo-sapiens-oxford-university-a8442356.html