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Check out this link, showing a slightly different route out of Africa...

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/03/modern-humans-wandered-out-of-africa-via-arabia/?source=link_tw20111103ngnw-arabia

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I thought this Yemen route was already a common theory?

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Originally posted by KazetNagorra
I thought this Yemen route was already a common theory?
Yep, that's the route in every book/article and tv program i've read/seen on the subject.

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The article implies that nobody followed the Nile up. I believe both paths were taken.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
The article implies that nobody followed the Nile up. I believe both paths were taken.
How do you survive without agriculture? Anyway, what you "believe" doesn't really have any bearing on genetic research.

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Originally posted by KazetNagorra
How do you survive without agriculture? Anyway, what you "believe" doesn't really have any bearing on genetic research.
The Sahara wasn't always a desert. Back then it was green and lush and full of food. A branch of humanity did go up the Nile and into Canaan 125,000 years ago. My previous research had led me to believe mtDNA haplogroups M and N took separate routes, but now I'm seeing both of those groups came from the Arabian migration according to the genetics.

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/