
Vol 1 Ep 10 - The spread of Homo sapiens, Part One
History of the World podcast
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The History of the Indanesia Migration
The climate was a lot colder around 65 thousand years ago than it is to day. A population would have headed southeast towards modern indanesia in exactly the same way that we believe homo erectus probably did some one and a half million years previous. They encountered the denisevens, cousins of the neander tols, and interbred with them, therefore adding denisevan d an a to their ginome. This could be the story of our migration. But beyond that, things start getting complicated. The area is made up of islands which are predominantly part of modern day indanesia, with exceptions. By looking at a modern map from java, you can access the island
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