Early male and female footprints of modern humans across Eurasia and Australasia
Abstract
As an alternative to a recent coastal southern route followed by modern humans to colonize Eurasia after an Out of Africa around 60 Kya, and under the premise that the evolutionary rate based coalescent ages slowdown going backwards in time, I propose a new model based on phylogenetic and phylogeographic analyses of uniparental markers in present and past modern human populations across Eurasia and Australasia. The archaeological record favors a northern route that reached China around 120 kya and then descended latitudinally reaching Southeast Asia and islands around 70-60 kya. These ages coincide with the basal split of the mtDNA macrohaplogroup L34* and the origin of the Y-chromosome macrohaplogroup CT* and the subsequent splits in Eurasia of mtDNA haplogroups M and N and Y-chromosome C, D and F clades respectively. Roughly at the same time modern humans arrived in Australasia other groups retreated southwest returning to Africa carrying with them mtDNA L3 and Y-Chromosome E lineages. Southeast Asia and Southwest-Central Asia were the subsequent demographic centers for the respective colonization of East and northern Asia and Europe. Across the Ganges-Brahmaputra and the Indus valleys, South Asia was colonized from both migratory centers.
02 /Specification & Classification
Click any tag to browse matching papers- Citations
- 3
- FWCI
- 0.63
- Field percentile
- top 37%
- Organism
- Assay
- Research Focus
- Approach
Reproducibility ledger
Nobody has reported trying to reproduce this paper yet. Did you replicate an experiment or run the code? Your report saves the next lab a week.
Sign in to file a reproducibility report.
Related papers
- Carriers of human mitochondrial DNA macrohaplogroup M colonized India from southeastern Asia
Patricia Marrero, Khaled K Abu-Amero, … Vicente M Cabrera·BMC Evolutionary BiologyPeer-reviewed·Nov 10, 2016
- Carriers of mitochondrial DNA macrohaplogroup L3 basic lineages migrated back to Africa from Asia around 70,000 years ago.
V. M. Cabrera, J. P. Marrero Rodriguez, … J. M. Larruga·bioRxiv·Dec 13, 2017
- Following the evolution of Homo sapiens across Africa using a uniparental genetic guide
V. M. Cabrera·bioRxiv·Jul 6, 2022
- Modern human origins: multiregional evolution of autosomes and East Asia origin of Y and mtDNA
- Ancient Y chromosomes confirm origin of modern human paternal lineages in Asia rather than Africa
- Hypothesis: A modern human range expansion ~300,000 years ago had a critical role in Neandertal origins
David Reich·bioRxiv·Oct 13, 2026