Modern humans likely originated in Africa and slowly spread out through the rest of the world. Complete the sentence with the appropriate dates for modern human migration. Fully modern humans migrated to Australia by _____ and to North America and South America by ____
Answer:
1. 40,000 yBP
2. 15,000 yBP
Explanation:
Based on various research studies, scientists have concluded that, the modern humans migrated from Africa to Asia aroud 80,000 and 60,000 years ago. While some later settled in places like Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia around 45,000 - 40,000 years ago.
Moving on, moderns humans, also migrated to Europe around 40,000 years ago or earlier ago. They did not stop there, they eventually migrated to both North and South America at around 15,000 years ago, having moved from Asia.