OutofAfrica
Out of Africa is a term used in human evolution to describe the origin of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Africa and their subsequent dispersal to other continents. The core idea, often called the African replacement or recent African origin model, holds that modern humans evolved in Africa and later migrated outward, largely replacing local archaic human populations with limited interbreeding.
Evidence from fossils and genetics supports this view. In Africa, some of the oldest fossils that are
The out-of-Africa model is now the dominant framework in paleoanthropology, though it recognizes that multiple dispersals