While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million ... their staunch defenders who cite DNA evidence - analysis of the genetic ...

Modern Africans have an average of 17 megabases of Neanderthal DNA in their genomes, according to an analysis published today (January 30) in Cell. While that’s still quite a bit less than the 50-plus ...

But our ancestor Homo erectus lived in Africa ... journal Nature traced all modern human mitochondrial DNA back to one population in Africa which lived between 200,000 and 150,000 years ago.

Scientists have yet to obtain DNA from the fossilised ... to even earlier H. erectus fossils from Africa, Java and Dmanisi (in Georgia), and to some Homo heidelbergensis fossils from Africa ...