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08/12/2007: "Early humans came from Asia too"

Early human-like residents of Europe may have arrived out of Asia, rather than just Africa.

An international team of researchers reports in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that Asians appear to have played a larger part in the settlement of Europe than did Africans.

The team led by Maria Martinon-Torres of the National Center for the Investigation of Human Evolution, in Burgos, Spain, reached that conclusion after analyzing more than 5,000 fossil teeth from early hominins, an early form of human predecessors.

[ Science still knows so little about early humanity we might see this as a small step back toward realization of what is most likely to have happened, which is a series of overlapping parallel developments across the globe. ]

http://www.livescience.com/history/070807_ap_asia_europe.html