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A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

Were Modern Humans Neighbors to Neanderthals? Dating of Modern-Style Artifacts in Famed Neanderthal Cave in France Refuels Debate About Possible Coexistence. September 11, 2005.

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years.

Modern humans (left) and Neanderthals (right) had their fair share of anatomical differences (including the size, shape, and features of their skulls).

By 40,000 to 60,000 years ago, modern humans were migrating into the same region, where they met the southern Denisovan branch and co-existed long enough to interbreed.

Some of the oldest remains of modern humans in the world are much older than scientists thought. The remains, known as Omo I, were found in southwest Ethiopia in the late 1960s.

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...