有份參與研究的西班牙學者 María Martinón-Torres 向 BBC 指,或許我們真的是 60,000 年前出走非洲的後代,但我們須重新思考我們現有的(人類遷徙)模型,或許歷史上曾上演多於一次的「出非洲記」。
Maybe we really are descendents of the dispersal 60,000 years ago - but we need to re-think our models. Maybe there was more than one Out of Africa migration. (BBC)
報告:
Liu, W., Martinón-Torres, M., Cai, Y. J., Xing, S., Tong, H. W., Pei, S. W., ... & Wu, X. J. (2015). The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China. Nature, published online 14 October 2015. DOI: 10.1038/nature15696