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Article: Tribe that began human race Scientists have uncovered evidence that climate change thousands of years ago prompted an epic trek across the Red Sea - which proved to be the turning point in the colonisation of the world
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- May 10, 2009
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THE ENTIRE human race outside Africa owes its existence to the
survival of a single tribe of about 200 people who crossed the Red
Sea 70,000 years ago, scientists have discovered.
Research by geneticists and archaeologists has enabled them to
trace the origins of modern homo sapiens back to a single group of
people who crossed from the Horn of Africa into Arabia. From there,
they colonised the rest of the world.
Genetic analysis of today's populations in Europe, Asia,
Australia, North America and South America have disclosed that they
are all descended from these common ancestors. It is thought that
changes in the climate between 90,000 and 70,000 years ago caused
sea levels to drop and ...