title: Timing the first human migration into eastern Asia.
abstract: A recent report in BMC Biology indicates that modern humans first arrived in southern East Asia 60,000 years ago and settled the rest of East Asia from there. This early date and migration route has significant implications for our understanding of the origins of present-day human populations.
authors.affiliation: University of Florence, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Italy. roscoe.stanyon@unifi.it
authors.forename: Roscoe
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stanyon
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sazzini
authors.forename: Donata
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Luiselli
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D011157:Population Dynamics; D013997:Time Factors