by aylin woodward
it's a sex-laced mystery. if modern humans didn't reach europe until about 60,000 years ago, how has DNA from them turned up in a neanderthal fossil in germany from 124,000 years ago?
the answer seems to be that there was aprevious migration of early humans-more than 219,000 years ago one that we're only just starting to reveal from piecemeal evidence that is DNA extracted from fossilised bones. the story, as far as we knew it, was that the ancestors of modern humans diverged from neanderthals and denisovans between 550,000 and 765,000 years ago, while neanderthals and denisovans inhabited eurasia, modern humans stayed in africa until about 60,000 years ago, than they entered europe, too
