Modern humans now permanently live on every continent except Antarctica, but it wasn’t always this way. After our species, Homo sapiens, emerged in Africa at least 300,000 years ago, some eventually ventured out, trekking and voyaging across the world.
So when did the first modern humans reach each of the seven continents?
The accepted ideas about human evolution today are the “Out of Africa” theories, which propose that H. sapiens evolved in Africa and spread to the other continents, sometimes displacing or mating with other members of the Homo genus — known as hominins — as they did so.
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