Modern humans left Africa something like 100,000 years ago, but predecessor species like Homo heidelbergensis (found in Spain) and Homo erectus (found in Indonesia) had left Africa hundreds of thousands of years before that. One of the things that broke my brain in college was realizing all the human off-shoot species also had boats and had already gone across nearly the whole world before modern humans showed up.
I thought the Americas, Australia, most of the Pacific, and far northern Eurasia were all only reached by homo sapiens. Is there evidence of other humans species going to those places?
Modern humans left Africa something like 100,000 years ago, but predecessor species like Homo heidelbergensis (found in Spain) and Homo erectus (found in Indonesia) had left Africa hundreds of thousands of years before that. One of the things that broke my brain in college was realizing all the human off-shoot species also had boats and had already gone across nearly the whole world before modern humans showed up.
Yeah the whole "evolved seperately" is nonsense.
I thought the Americas, Australia, most of the Pacific, and far northern Eurasia were all only reached by homo sapiens. Is there evidence of other humans species going to those places?