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Ep. 112: Early Indians

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Origins of Out of Africa Migration

The first out of Africa migration happened around 70,000 years ago using genetics and some amount of climatic possibilities at that point in time. I think the people who moved on from India went across to Southeast Asia, East Asia, Japan, India, sorry China. And they also went across to Australia. The best understanding is that there is one stream of out of Africa migrants who went up what is today Pakistan into Central Asia and then West. They might have another group that went even across West Asia into Europe. So that's a very rough sketch of the people in the world.

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