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Out of Africa via Egypt

New DNA research suggests that European and Asian (Eurasian) peoples originated when early Africans moved north - through the region that is now Egypt - to expand into the rest of the world. The findings, published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, answer a long-standing question as to whether early humans emerged from Africa by a route via Egypt, or via Ethiopia.  Click here to read the entire story in Archaeology News Report and thanks to member Doyle Phillips for the tip.

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